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Climate Multilateralism in Limbo: China’s Role in Constructing Meaningful Paths Forward
Throughout the past decade, China’s public stance toward the climate crisis has shifted significantly as the consequences of climate...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read
Return of Meng and ‘The Michaels’ – Not a Détente
On September 25, after 3 years of detention in Canada, Huawei’s chief financial officer and CEO’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou stepped off of...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read
Why Foreign Aid Is Not Enough to Resolve Surges in Migration from Central America
On a trip to Guatemala last June, US Vice President Kamala Harris initiated a rhetorical and strategic shift in her administration’s...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read
Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system...
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Oct 28, 20214 min read
Why the German Finance Ministry Matters—And Who Should (Not) Lead It.
For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as chancellor, the leading German philosophy on financial and budgetary matters was simple. So...
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Oct 27, 20216 min read
Against Absolutes: The Endurance of Eswatini’s Anti-Monarchy Movement
The king must go. This is the sentiment sprayed onto shop walls, shared on WhatsApp statuses, and chanted across the Kingdom of Eswatini....
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Oct 23, 20215 min read
Bucking Convention: How Indian courts have internalized CEDAW
Sarita Skagnes was born in a small village in Northern India as the third daughter in her family. Based on the perceived lack of honor...
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May 28, 20214 min read
Redefining the Flag: Why Britain’s Labour party must embrace patriotism
As Britain’s Labour Party attempts to reassemble an electoral coalition following its devastating 2019 defeat to Boris Johnson’s...
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May 28, 20213 min read
Closed Until Further Notice: How Covid-19 has left Panamanian children especially vulnerable
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom...
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May 28, 20215 min read
Transitioning Reforms and Reforming Transitioning: How Germany is reckoning with its past transphobi
Angela Merkel’s Germany usually espouses ideals of acceptance, tolerance, and inclusion. However, for transgender individuals, the...
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May 28, 20215 min read
A Dose of Diplomacy: How Cuba’s vaccine generosity is a symbol of its altruistic medical inter
Cuban patriot leader José Martí declared during Cuba’s final War of Independence (1895-1898) that the battle was “the revolution of the...
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May 28, 20215 min read
Deplatforming Authoritarians is Good; Preventing their Rise to Power is Better.
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the public in 2012....
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Apr 15, 20215 min read
The 2022 French Presidential Election is a Test of the First-past-the-post System
The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential election are the same as those from 2017: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen....
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Apr 13, 20215 min read
Half In, Half Out: Biden’s Ambiguous Withdrawal from Yemen and its Human Consequences
At 8:30 a.m. on August 9, 2018, an aerial bomb fell on a school bus in a market in Yemen, killing 40 children. The explosion was so...
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Apr 8, 20215 min read
The Fight for Free Speech: Civil Liberties in Spain
“Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge...
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Apr 7, 20215 min read
The Tables are Turning: Germany’s Attitudinal Shift in the Battle Against the Far Right
In the 2017 German national elections, the populist radical-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party won 13 percent of seats in the...
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Apr 6, 20216 min read
A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity
In mid-February, Peruvian governmental corruption made international headlines once again when reports came out that almost 500...
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Apr 5, 20216 min read
Inequality & Abduction: The Economics of Student Kidnapping in Nigeria
In late February, an estimated 300 Nigerian girls were abducted from their school in an overnight raid in Zamfara, Nigeria. Over 100...
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Apr 4, 20215 min read
The Emergence of Vaccine Diplomacy: Indian & Chinese Politicization of the Pandemic
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pleaded for an international...
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Mar 18, 20215 min read
Left-Wing Prospects: A Sinn Féin Model
As the popularity of right-wing populist parties has soared in recent years, Ireland contrasts in exhibiting a notable dearth of such a...
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Mar 16, 20216 min read
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