The Geopolitics of AI Regulation
On August 2, 2024, Europe’s AI Act entered into force, becoming the world’s first comprehensive legal framework on the issue of artificial intelligence. Operati...
Category: Global Issue
Framing the Rape Crisis in South Africa
“We’ve been standing here for 26 seconds, and nobody has been raped”. On the 2nd of February 2000, the late Minister of Safety and Security went on an American ...
Rethinking Solutions: The Role of Third-Country Agreements in Europe’s Migration Crisis
Europe’s shortcomings in managing migration have been evident from the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis to the recent 2024 elections. I argue that Europe’s struggle p...
Portraits of Erasure: The Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Two Artsakhtsis displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in Goris, Armenia with the few possessions they managed to bring with them. | Credit: Anoush Baghdassarian. One ...
Development or Dependency? A Critical Analysis of Structural Adjustment in Argentina
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 12) Abstract This research paper constitutes a critical analysis of the Keystone Internationa...
Soldiers of God: The Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Democracy
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 12) Abstract The Muslim Brotherhood has been a constant of Egyptian and Middle Eastern politi...
Genocidal Rape and the Justice System: A Victim-Based Analysis of the Insufficient Restorative Justice Afforded to Rwanda’s Sexual Assault Survivors
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 12) Introduction The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is considered one of the most egregious human r...
The Application of the Traditional Concept of Neutrality to Modern Means of Warfare
INTRODUCTION Neutrality, in its traditional sense, was activated when conventional war broke out and was limited to neutral states refraining from taking part i...
The Perfect Storm: Existing and Evolving American Perceptions and their Effects on the Beginnings of Sino-American Rapprochement, 1964-1970
Research Question(s): Were material, intellectual, or personal factors the most important to Sino-American rapprochement? Why did rapprochement happen duri...
How Economic Incentives Undermine Human Rights Diplomacy in EU-China Relations
On December 30, 2020, the European Union (EU) and China announced that they concluded the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), a long-awaited deal that ...