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Western Outlier, Colonial Rule? Human Rights and ‘Stability’ in Singapore
“I believe the choice between economic rights and human rights, between economic security and national security, is a false one.” In...
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Dec 20, 20215 min read


How Japan’s Electoral System Promotes Patronage and Undermines Democracy
For all but four years since its formation in 1955, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has maintained a firm grip on Japanese...
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Dec 8, 20215 min read


Old Alliances, New Challenges: Afghanistan, the US, and the UK
The United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier this year was one of the most profound foreign policy choices the Biden...
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Dec 7, 20215 min read


International Climate Plans Must Recognize the Plight of Small Island Nations
At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP26, the United Kingdom welcomed leaders from across the globe...
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Dec 4, 20216 min read


Child Labor Is a Feature of Our Capitalist System
In the face of a “labor shortage” that has seen workers quitting or refusing to return to low-paying jobs, many restaurants in the United...
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Dec 3, 20215 min read


Not a Monolith: What the Queer Response to the Beirut Blast can Teach Us about Lebanon and the Middl
In seconds, everything changed. A city buzzing with mundane early-evening traffic came to a standstill as 2,750 tonnes of ammonium...
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Dec 2, 20215 min read


Constitutional Rights and Indigenous Dispossession in Chile
For the first time in Chilean history, an Indigenous Mapuche woman, Elisa Loncon, is leading the country’s constitutional transformation...
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Dec 2, 20214 min read


Interfering with Non-interference: ASEAN and the Myanmar Crisis
Every year since 1976, ten of Southeast Asia’s top leaders have come together at the main summit of the Association of Southeast Asian...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations
China-Taiwan relations are at their “worst in 40 years.” There are “confirmed US troops in Taiwan.” And 150 mainland aircrafts entered...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


Why Dimming the Sun Might be a Good Idea
“In the near future, climate modification will become necessary to maintain current climatic conditions,” wrote Soviet scientist Mikhail...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


Prepare for the Worst: Rebuilding Caribbean Schools after Hurricanes
Education perils in unexpected emergencies. After the last eighteen months under a global pandemic, seemingly every nation has come to...
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Nov 24, 20215 min read


It’s the Great Pumpkin, BPR: The History, Culture, and Economic Promise of Pumpkins in Ukraine
In the United States, the arrival of late autumn means just one thing for your taste palate: Here comes the pumpkin. With pumpkin...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


Bridging the Gap: Reconciling Political Differences Between East and West Germany
In 2019, a Business Insider article noted the visible difference between yellow streetlights in eastern Berlin and the fluorescent,...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


What is a Green Party?
“The principal defect of the industrial way of life,” wrote a group of British environmental scientists in 1972 for The Ecologist, “is...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


The Relevance of International Media in Activism: Understanding the Politics and Poverty of Squid Ga
Choi Young-soo works as a 35-year-old part-time food delivery driver in South Korea. However, he wasn’t always condemned to working a...
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Nov 22, 20216 min read


Doing Business: Politics and Bias at the IMF, World Bank
The future of multilateralism hangs in the balance. At least, that was the thought running through then-CEO of the World Bank Kristalina...
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Nov 22, 20216 min read


Submarine Diplomacy: AUKUS, and the Reshuffling of Alliances
On September 15th 2021, Australia, the UK and the US signed perhaps one of the most consequential defense pacts in recent history. The...
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Nov 2, 20214 min read


Not So Nice: Why Canada’s Environmental Racism Crisis is Cause for Reconsidering its National Identi
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s...
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Nov 1, 20216 min read


‘Kimchi Wars’ and East Asia’s Complicated, Post-Colonial Nationalism
In recent years, kimchi—a spicy, fermented cabbage dish ubiquitous in Korea—has found its way into home kitchens and chain restaurants...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


“If We Do Not Win Soon, We Do Not Win”: Why Right Now is the Best Time to Stop Using Natural Gas
The roofs over several docks at Port Fourchon were stripped away by early afternoon. Hurricane Ida had produced a 12-foot storm surge and...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read
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