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A Nation Without Land
“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in...
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May 1, 20234 min read


The Case For Papua Merdeka
23 September, West Papua, Indonesia: Police shot bullets at protesters, who fired back with arrows. The sky filled with smoke as houses,...
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Jan 9, 20204 min read


Tiny But Mighty
When Paddy Roy Bates claimed an abandoned military fort as a present for his wife Joan, the principality of Sealand was born. There was...
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Jan 1, 20203 min read


Borders, Roads, and a Tiny Nation’s Role in a Continental Struggle: Bhutan and the Sino-Indian Dokla
In the summer of 2017, China and India engaged in a 73-day border standoff on the Doklam Plateau, a 34 square mile piece of land disputed...
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Mar 6, 20195 min read


Rex Tillerson Returns to the South China Sea
Rex Tillerson has brushed up against China before. So have his competitors. In 2006, Chevron executives thought they had spotted a golden...
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Apr 16, 20175 min read


Circumventing Native American Sovereignty
Paul Gosar, a Republican congressman from Arizona, recently got into trouble for calling Native American tribes “wards of the federal...
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Jan 16, 20154 min read


How to Forget Your Ex
There’s something archetypal about the ignominious flight of a newly unseated despot — Louis XVI, the Tsar and the Shah all come to mind....
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Mar 11, 20146 min read
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