#EndSARS: Amplifying Young Nigerian Voices
On October 11, 2020, the Nigerian police force announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a corrupt police unit known as SARS. The announcemen...
Exploring the Police-Military Relationship in Pakistan and the United States
On the surface, the arrest of Muhammad Safdar—a political dissenter who happens to be the son-in-law of the exiled ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif—appears to be ...
A Third Ceasefire in the Caucasus: Will it Hold?
In late September, the latest flare-up in the long running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted in Artsakh, an area of south Azerbaijan near the Iranian border. Th...
Below Us: A Very Brief History of Modern U.S.-Latin America Relations and Trump’s Legacy
As we approach the end of President Donald J. Trump’s first term as occupant of the White House, it is valuable to reflect on his relationship with countries to...
Portrait of a Psychological Warrior: The Challenges Facing Robert Blum and the Asia Foundation in Establishing a U.S. Public Diplomacy Program
In April 1953, Robert Blum was serving as a Director of Staff for the President’s Committee on International Information Activities (PCIIA), a committee which P...
Spillovers versus Bargaining – Which Integration Theory Explains the EU’s Coronavirus Recession Response?
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic and its consequences have undoubtedly altered the lives of many worldwide in a brief but impactful timeframe, and it conti...
Fault Lines in the Legal Basis for America’s ‘Snapback’
On 14 August 2020, the United States of America introduced a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’ or ‘the Council’), to extend the in...
Neoliberalism: Free Markets and Constrained Citizens
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Neoliberalism is rooted in the paradox between its theoretical principles and its p...
The 1911 Revolution and China’s “Internationalist Nationalism”:
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) How did Chinese Intellectual Thinking on the Idea of Nationalism Change China’s Vie...
CHASING THE (LATIN) AMERICAN DREAM? AN EXAMINATION OF US-BACKED REGIME CHANGE SINCE WORLD WAR II
INTRODUCTION The history of Latin America is dominated by political instabilities, foreign interventions, and economic volatility. Prior to independence in the ...