Peace for a Time: Neville Chamberlain’s Negotiation of the Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, is widely perceived today as a terrible mistake made by a weak leader. The standard narrative is that Prime Minister...
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France’s Misguided Approach to Fake News
French president Emmanuel Macron held a press conference on January 3, 2018 in which he announced “a change to [France’s] legal arsenal to protect democratic li...
HIV-Positive Gay Community in Hong Kong: Sexual and Health Stigmatization Puts Lives at Stake
HIV/AIDS first appeared in The New York Times in 1982, originally referred to as Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). [i] Although GRID was later renamed to Ac...
Potential Peacemaker or Just Another Spectator?: China’s Relations with Israel and Palestine, and Its Prospect as a Broker for Peace
Introduction Many experts have recently taken a keener eye to the activities of China in the Middle East, especially following heightened Chinese involvement th...
Coverage and Reach, Affordability and Capacity? Gauging the Feasibility of the Mozambican Welfare State through Considerations of Divisive Internal Politics, International Agency Prescriptions, and South-South Cooperation
Abstract With cash transfer programmes, food subsidies, and other social protections, Mozambique’s welfare state addresses several critical areas of extreme pov...
Cyber-defense Strategies for Contending with Non-state Actors: A Review and Assessment of Existing Proposals
Introduction With the development of cyberspace and the Internet beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, new potential avenues for warfare and other hostile actions h...
North Korean Nuclear Proliferation: Causes and Responses
North Korea’s nuclear proliferation has long been a significant worry in world politics and for North Korea’s neighbors. Since 2002, North Korea has renewed its...
Hafez Assad: National Hero or a Tragic Alternative?
“Most Syrians, especially the generation that never knew any other ruler, came to see no alternative” were Hunnebusch’s words when writing about Hafez Al-Assad’...
A Question of Necessity? Need for Clarity on Torture in Israeli Law
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, a deeply impactful conflict with ramifications still felt today. While the most visible result of Israel’s l...
A People in Suffering: A Look at the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Yemen has for long been the poorest country of the Middle East. For decades, the people have suffered from a lagging economy and an inefficient government. At t...
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