The Taliban, Pakistan, and Indonesia: Changing the Geopolitical Landscape
The situation in Afghanistan On August 19, 2021, the Taliban declared the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (further called the Emirate). A...
Fear of Irrelevance: Minilaterals and ASEAN’s Inability to Manage Great Power Competition
The newly established trilateral defense pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, known as AUKUS, has added fuel to the rivalry in the...
Triangulation and Strangulation: The Story of China’s Asia
“China’s Asia: Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War” makes for a riveting title of an equally interesting book by Lowell Dittmer, published in early 2018. Low...
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 ...
Performing Diplomacy: How a Newly Independent ‘Little Red Dot’ Managed Power, Impressions and Feelings on World Stage
In 1965, when newly independent Singapore was attempting to assert its non-communist and multi-ethnic identity, Singapore faced two problems. First, the threat ...