Summer 2017
Asia
Asia
ROSATOM, the CNNC, and the Nuclear Energy Arms Race
"The intersection between energy as a necessity and energy sources as a tool for foreign policy goals cannot be overlooked."
Public Health
Filling the Void: Vaccine Diplomacy and Shifting Global Health Dynamics
"Most importantly, middle-income countries recognize that ending the pandemic will require international cooperation rather than isolationism—and that the pandemic won’t be over anywhere until it’s over everywhere."
Perspectives
The Geopolitics of Water and the New Indo-Pacific Strategy
With numerous dams built on the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, and Mekong rivers, China is able to store or divert water in a way that might lead to the drying out of vast territories downstream.
Asia
The Cybercrime Syndicate Financing the North Korean State
"The United States government labels them HIDDEN COBRA. They prey on user data, cryptocurrency, and vaccine intellectual property. Today, they are most commonly identified as the Lazarus Group. They are one of the greatest cyber threats to the security of the international community."
Asia
New Weapons and Dictator Tears: a Surreal North Korean Celebration
"On October 10, 2020, all eyes were on [North Korea] for clues on how it had fared as the rest of the world came to a halt. The results were surprising and mixed."
Asia
Rape in Bangladesh: An Epidemic Turn of Sexual Violence
"The rape epidemic is the naked reflection of the ill state and social systems of Bangladesh."
Asia
The Damning Legacy of Remittance in a COVID world: Case Study South Asia
Remittance failed to outlive its macroeconomic promise of a countercyclical safety net during COVID. For a region receiving a quarter of all the remittance in the world, the pandemic revealed one of the biggest economic vulnerabilities of South Asia.
Employment & Immigration
Modern Day Slavery: the Kafala System in Lebanon
"Two hundred and fifty thousand workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon are currently struggling to survive in an exploitative system."
Asia
Central Asian Spring
"Safe to say, Turkmenistan may be a ticking time bomb, and the situation in neighboring Kyrgyzstan may either light the fuse or simply add more tonnage to the explosion that’s to come."
Law & Diplomacy
Erdogan’s Attempts for Control of the Greek Press and the Eastern Mediterranean
"By weaponizing his abuse of the free press to serve his international agenda, Erdogan is signaling his increasing willingness to push the boundaries of international norms in his overall campaign for more geopolitical power."
Perspectives
"Isolation": Donetsk’s Torture Prison
East Ukrainian separatists have been operating a small concentration camp in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, for more than six years now.