Isaac Tang is a staff writer for the HIR. He is interested in defense affairs, as well as Eastern European and East Asian politics.
Mexico
The danger of organized crime, more specifically powerful transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) is often overlooked; TCOs can displace the authority of legitimate government in the same manner as other seditious elements.
Defense
"The influx of Western volunteers in Ukraine is just the latest in the long history of foreigners fighting and dying for nations that are not their own."
Europe
"More than anything else, [turbo folk war] music and its popularity represents the continued instability in the Balkans and the long road to permanent peace."