Perspectives
Dr. Rupakjyoti Borah is an Associate Professor at Sharda University, India. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, the Japan Institute of International Affairs, and the Australian National University. The views here expressed are his own. The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic which started in Wuhan
Public Health
Padmashree Gehl Sampath is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Aalborg, Denmark, and a Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University-MERIT. Last week, Africa recorded over 75,000 COVID-19 infections.
Asia
Deep in the rolling hills of Southwest Russia’s mountainous Caucasus region lies a pair of restive territories home to a once nomadic collection of ethnic groups. The Avars and the Chechens, who call the north Caucasus region their home, represent a modern distinct identity whose struggle for independence is
Defense
Space has long been considered the final frontier, an infinite expanse into which human science, ingenuity, and, perhaps colonies, might expand. However, it should not be forgotten that the frontier of old was a site of lawlessness and violence. A lack of governance combined with high stakes competition made frontier
Interviews
"The United States and China will probably compete in almost every domain short of war."
Asia
Everyday, four farmers in India take their own lives to escape their crippling debt and poverty. This is just one way that the economic and environmental failures of agriculture in India are affecting the lives of citizens.
Asia
Both Xi and Trump are using political strategies that risk the erosion of balance in a fragile security trilemma. With the recent shift from foreign policy statements to military action, big man politics has become less of an abstract threat and more of an imminent crisis.
Human Rights
Censorship has always been an issue of great controversy in China, affecting the rest of the world’s perception of China. Because China censors its citizens’ technology usage, it can specifically control the image of China that is portrayed to the world, limiting citizens’ opportunities to paint the country in
Agriculture
In today’s economy, Japan plays a critical role in international trade. With the third largest economy [http://statisticstimes.com/economy/projected-world-gdp-ranking.php] in the world, Japan has become a world leader in promoting trade liberalization and increased openness in markets worldwide. However, this has not always been the case
Asia
The future is unclear, but Great Britain will likely continue to hang on to the islands despite the international pressure against it as long as it perceives doing so to be within its national interest.
Middle East & Africa
Latifa Abdullah Al Saud is an M.A. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and a graduate student in the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard. She specializes in international relations, with a focus on the politics of East Asian-Middle East relations. The DPRK’s
Europe
Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Principal Researcher with the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, as well as General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” and “Ukrainian Voices” distributed by Columbia University Press. When it