World
The Geopolitics of the New Oil: Semiconductors
The world witnessed the skyrocketing demand and severity of the global semiconductor shortage when Toyota, Ford, and Volvo had to either slow or temporarily...
UN Veto: Need for Regulation and the Way Forward
A resolution (A/77/L.52) has been adopted on April 26, 2022 by the United Nations General Assembly requiring five permanent members of the Security Council to...
Civilians in the Gray Zone: New Rules for New Hybrid Wars?
The active conflicts in Ethiopia, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen are replete with reminders of the gruesome nature of violence that state entities are capable...
Regime Change Cannot Be a Foreign Policy Option for Any World Leaders
The U.S. President Joe Biden was on a two-day visit to Poland in March and concluded it with a speech about the Russo-Ukrainian War...
Overcoming the Growing Inflationary Pressures in Emerging Markets by Integrating Monetary and Economic Indicators With Geospatial Strategies
With the growing inflationary pressures in emerging markets, monetary policymakers must consider new types of trade-offs, approaches, and solutions. These include integrating geospatial systems...
Mind the Gap: What We Do and Don’t Know About Gaming and Radicalization
Gaming and its potential (mis-)use by extremist actors is the new hot topic in radicalization and extremism studies. After the 2019 right-wing extremist attack...
Fighting Food Insecurity Through Local Action
Despite all its convenience, contemporary life has myriad downsides, especially in undeveloped nations. Poverty, food insecurity, and freshwater access are among the most glaring...
International and Regional Refugee Laws at a Glance
In 2017, the world was rocked by the mass exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar into Bangladesh. This was a result of a deadly crackdown...
Crypto’s Geopolitical Stress Test
It would have seemed far-fetched to affirm in 2009 that the fledgling cryptocurrency technology, in less than twenty years, would become a major political...
The Persecution of Uyghur Intellectual and Cultural Producers: Genocide Through Eliticide
Gulnisa Imin, a Uyghur literature teacher and talented writer, contributed extensively to modern Uyghur poetry within the Chinese state’s narrow limits of censorship. In...
Poverty’s Strain: How Poverty Relates to Health in Global Contexts
Around the world, individual health is determined by several factors, both physical and mental. Even those of us with an active lifestyle can be...
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Asia-Pacific
How Korean War Continues to Shape South Korean Politics
The Korean War (1950-53) which marked North Korea's unilateral...
Politics
Afghan Sikhs: Their Immediate Challenges and Emotional Dilemma
While at one point in the 1970s the population...
Middle East and Africa
Iran: The Huseyniyyun Brigade and Iran’s Latest Campaign Against Azerbaijan
Iran’s media outlets, clerics, and students from the theological...
Economy
Higher Out of Pocket Expenditure: A Concern in India?
Health spending drives over a hundred million people into...
Climate change
The Indonesia Haze and ASEAN’s Regional Framework: The Way Ahead
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...