In the German federal elections this past September, the country’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) received only 20.5 percent of the...

This past December, Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated the 22nd anniversary of the Dayton Accords, the U.S.-led peace treaty that...

In 1975, with the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), biological and toxin weapons became the first category of weapons to be entirely...

With the stunning overthrows of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia, some are wondering whether another one of...

In Africa’s southern states, land remains a deeply emotive issue, an open wound harkening back to days of apartheid and colonialism. In...

We live in a time of rapid technological advancement. This has large implications for national security. Even during peacetime, covert...

When he speaks of addressing homelessness, the architect-turned-advocate Rex Hohlbein describes the power inherent in a “critical mass of...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which largely consists of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), have recently taken over the...

In recent months, American President Donald Trump has driven up tensions with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), through...

From October 18 to October 24, 2,287 delegates, representing over 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), gathered in...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that his government and the state-run oil company PDVSA will need to “restructure...

According to an old Kurdish proverb, “the Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” The Iraqi-Kurdish independence referendum on...

Between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, there were 81 government-ordered disruptions to internet access across the globe. Of these, 36...

In the relatively peaceful world of European politics, governments rarely reach into the toolbox of physical coercion. After all, sending...

If, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, you believe that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world,” then your world is getting...

On October 1, the Parliament of Catalonia defied Spain’s federal government by holding a referendum on Catalan independence. Catalonia,...

Since the turn of the century, Lao PDR has been on a bullet train to graduate from its “Least Developed Country Status” by 2020....

The Kyrgyz Republic, a small mountainous country in Central Asia, has been through multiple violent revolutions, in both 2005 and...

Last August, Tarek Amer, the polished head of the Central Bank of Egypt, received the IMF’s MENA Central Banker of the Year award. And he...

While provision of welfare services, such as healthcare, is one of a government’s foremost responsibilities to its citizens, it can, at...