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The Price of Persistence: Japan’s Opportunity Cost in the Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute
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by Zack Apt February 22, 2025As Syria emerges from a half-century of the brutal Assad regime, they face political and economic uncertainty as they attempt to form a new…
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Epigenetics and the Victims of Violence in Palestine
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Proxy War in Ukraine: An Examination of the Other Actors Involved
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Marco Rubio as Secretary of State: What He’ll Mean for Foreign Policy
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Living on the Margins: Japan’s Responsibility to Address the Plights of Stateless Koreans
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What Could a Second Trump Administration Mean for the West Bank?
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Basketball Diplomacy: The International Impact of the NBA
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Global Deadlock At the Munich Security Conference on February 16th, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a dire assessment of the current state of global…
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The Real Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Warfare
by Seher Alvi January 30, 2024A drone buzzes over a tumultuous warzone, scanning over dusty ruins and disarrayed troops. Unlike the human fighters, who are forced to deal with…
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With the Covid-19 pandemic beginning to position itself in the rearview, the post-crisis autopsy of the emergency and the actions of the responding parties…
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How Recessions Affect Developing Economies: Lessons from the Great Recession
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China’s Debt Issue: Its Weakening Economic Grip
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The Chip Shortage: a Lasting Symptom of COVID-19
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An Army All But in Name: The Recent Push for Japanese Military Independence
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Old Habits Die Hard: How the U.S. is Pushing Back Against Chinese Industry
by Michael Kerrigan November 21, 2022Much of U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century has been defined by a desire to maintain its position as a global superpower in…
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Taking to the Courts: the International Court of Justice and Climate Change
by Arya Goyal November 17, 2022The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, is yet another attempt by world leaders to tackle the issue of climate…
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In the Limelight: Threats to Utility Infrastructure Explained through Cape Town, South Africa and Jackson, Mississippi
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by Grace Funk November 17, 2022The Middle East faces an existential water crisis and is running out of time to fix it. According to NASA data, the 2020-2021 rainfall…
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by Jack Hill November 8, 2022History has demonstrated that nations often compromise on guaranteeing civil rights to their citizens as they mobilize against threats to national security. In combating…
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by Seher Alvi June 3, 2022With the Russia-Ukraine conflict raging on our television screens and across the pages of our media every day, the world is exceptionally focused on…
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Covid, Automation, and their long-term effects on Women’s Work
by Joshua Potter May 25, 2022Joshua Potter’s article is additionally featured in The Generation’s Spring 2022 Digital Print Edition: Women. Coming June 1st 2022. Automation has been ever since the…
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Global Gender Inequality and Disparity in Education
by Shannon Courtney May 17, 2022Shannon Courtney’s article is additionally featured in The Generation’s Spring 2022 Digital Print Edition:Women. Coming June 1st 2022. Education provides individuals with the tools, skills,…
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Human Trafficking in Nepal: The Push Factors and Pushback
by Samriddhi Sapkota May 3, 2022Samriddhi Sapkota’s article is additionally featured in The Generation’s Spring 2022 Digital Print Edition:Women. Coming June 1st 2022. When Nepal signed the Indo-Nepal Treaty…
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Why Liberal Internationalism Can Survive a Global Rise in Autocracy
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The Free-Market Democracy Scam
by Katherine Jones January 31, 2022“The Free-Market Democracy Scam” was originally published in our Fall 2021 Print Edition: Authoritarianism. Our story starts in 2000, at the close of Bill…
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by Christopher López January 28, 2022When Joseph Biden served as Vice-President, he traveled to over 45 countries, often leading diplomatic efforts on behalf of the Obama administration. In Central…
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by Manon Snyder January 14, 2022“Bulgaria’s Rising Autocrats and Their EU Enablers” was originally published in our Fall 2021 Print Edition: Authoritarianism. Whereas Poland and Hungary have taken a…
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by Samriddhi Sapkota January 3, 2022“Bangladesh: The Cost of Democracy” was originally published in our Fall 2021 Print Edition: Authoritarianism. When Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan in 1971, most…
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by Annabelle Werner August 24, 2021Earlier this year, surreal images poured out of major Colombian cities and into international news headlines. Videos emerged of thousands gathered in the streets,…
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Jamaica and China: Finding The Balance
by Elizabeth Onibokun June 8, 2021Introduction China’s rising influence around the world has been a subject of concern, particularly for the United States, who continue to fear China’s spreading…
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The World Bank and Tanzania’s Pregnant Schoolgirl Ban
by Rayna Salam April 22, 2021Tanzania’s law forbidding pregnant girls from attending school has been cause for global concern, but the World Bank has been the only development actor…