The Rise of the Right-Wing AfD Party in Germany
Image Caption: Protestors at a far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) demonstration carry signs with anti-immigrant and Islamophobic messages. At the end ...
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Chinese Control of the Mekong River Delta
Image Caption: Flash flooding as a result of a collapsed dam in Laos led to the deaths of at least 40 people and caused several dozen others to go missing ...
China with Global Characteristics: Why the Global Order is Safe from China’s Growing Influence
Image Caption: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Great Hall of the People, outlining his vision for the potential for Chinese leadership in ...
The Sweden Democrats: How an Anti-Immigrant Party is Reshaping Swedish Politics
Image Caption: With the unprecedented rise of an extremist anti-immigrant party in the 2018 parliamentary elections, Sweden’s facade of political stability...
Death Knell for Brazilian Democracy?
Image Caption: Far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign is remarkably popular among the electorate, but it has at times evoked...
USMCA: Total Overhaul or NAFTA 2.0?
Image Caption: President Trump delivers a statement at a news conference regarding the new USMCA deal written to replace NAFTA. The Office of the U.S. Trad...
The Global Resurgence of Populism as a Social Movement: Unifying the People or Creating Social Cleavages
Image Caption: Demonstrators gather in the city of Mainz at a rally in support of Alternative for Germany, a far-right German political party with populist root...
Canada Revokes Aung San Suu Kyi’s Honorary Citizenship as the Horror of the Rohingya Crisis Rages On
Image Caption: Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international pressure for her silence in response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and Canada has stripped her...
With Rights Come Responsibilities: The Evolution of Rights, Sovereignty, and Intervention in the International System
Image Caption: Although many point to the Peace of Westphalia as the starting point for the modern framework relating individual rights with sovereignty in inte...
Dissecting the Fault-lines of Ethno-political Violence in Asia: A Comparison between Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslims and Southern Thailand’s Patani Malays
Image Caption: Xinjiang Uyghur Muslims, unlike Thailand’s Patani Malays, undertook salient ethno-political action only at a time of a high perceived threa...