Human Rights
"Extensive efforts to support Ukrainian refugees are effectively progressive, yet they send a painfully clear message to non-Ukrainian refugees excluded from benefits: that they are less deserving of aid and acceptance."
Human Rights
"An analysis of Yemen's malnourishment epidemic from a biosocial perspective, underscoring how the international community has failed Yemen time and time again. Ultimately, this article imagines what care for Yemen must look like, amidst deteriorating health conditions across the country."
Asia
This past May, Filipino voters cast their ballots for the country’s next president: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son of the infamous deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Clan politics and historical revisionism continues to reign supreme.
Interviews
"One question right now is how robust this shift that started with the Kellogg-Briand Pact [is]... I think the question of our era, or at least one of the questions of our era, is whether the international legal order is going to continue to exist in that form."
Interviews
"My work really looks at rights as tools to foster and catalyze democratic political economies, and democratic political economies are, in turn, also necessary for people to really enjoy all their human rights."
Europe
"Whether intentionally or not, Putin’s emphasis on traditionalism, accompanied by a state-promoted culture of masculinity, has enabled a domestic violence crisis in Russia."
Employment & Immigration
"Even though the UAE is viewed by potential migrant workers as a 'land of hope,' the experiences of those who make it to the country and go through the employment system may, and probably should, lead to a change of this view."
Asia
Will China Subdue the United States without a Fight to Dominate the Indian Ocean? Dr. Patrick Mendis, a former American diplomat and a military professor in the NATO and Indo-Pacific Commands of the US Department of Defense, is a distinguished visiting professor of transatlantic relations at the University of Warsaw
Asia
"Despite Myanmar’s continuing humanitarian crisis and democratic disintegration, the conflict has lost the attention of the international community, particularly in the West."
Europe
"The controversy regarding Belgium is seated in a greater discussion on retributions for inequities of colonialism, including who, if anyone living, is to blame."
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."
Arts & Culture
"I think civil society has a role to play in demanding a different kind of world—a world that is more open, that is borderless, that is fluid—within an economy that works for all."