Human Rights
Defying Dictatorships: An Interview with Garry Kasparov
Human Rights Foundation Chairman and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on defending human rights, challenging dictators, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Predicting the Post-Pandemic World: “Deep Globalism” or Isolation?
Pavlo Klimkin was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, and is Head of the European, Regional and Russian Studies Program of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv. Andreas Umland is General Editor of the book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" at ibidem
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India in the Wake of COVID-19
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
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Financial Limitation and Exclusion in Hong Kong: Hong Kong's Treatment of Domestic Workers
Jason Hung is a visiting researcher at Stanford University, a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) fellow at Clinton Foundation and a young leader at Pacific Forum. According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW), some 320,000 foreign domestic workers (FDWs), also known as migrant domestic workers, are employed in
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Divinely Divided: Trump and the Mandate of Heaven
Dr. Patrick Mendis is a Taiwan fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China and a distinguished visiting professor of global affairs at the National Chengchi University in Taipei.
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Zimbabwe’s Sanctioned Emergency
How exactly did Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, arrive here?
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Territory Without Borders
Stuart Elden is a professor of political theory and geography at the University of Warwick. This piece was originally published in 2011. What does it mean to speak of "territory without borders"? Let me say immediately that this is not the same as the "borderless world" argument, nor in agreement
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The China Challenge
Joe Sestak is a Former Navy Admiral and Congressman, and is a Democratic Presidential Candidate. In Northwestern China, north of Tibet, there is an autonomous region called Xinjiang. It is the largest region in China, comprising nearly one-fifth of the country’s total land-mass. Though relatively sparsely populated, its 23
Europe
Finish the Fight: A Washington-Brussels Double Play Can Still Stop Nord Stream 2
Benjamin L. Schmitt is the Former European Energy Security Advisor in the US Department of State. The opinions expressed are his own. You can follow him on Twitter at @BLSchmitt. The Washington Nationals’ ubiquitous World Series victory slogan, “fight finished,” has been draped across every corner of the US capital
Europe
Why Kyiv’s Confrontation with Moscow in Eastern Ukraine Will Continue without an EU Policy Change
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
Middle East & Africa
Africa’s Rightful Place In the "New World Order"
Ivor Ichikowitz is an African industrialist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Founder and Executive Chairman of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation (IFF). The views expressed are his own. By now, you have probably heard of the coming “African Century [https://blogs.imf.org/2015/08/03/the-african-century/],” as a new wave of foreign
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The East Asian Miracle: Where Did Adam Smith Go Wrong?
Masoud Movahed. Originally published in the HIR Fall 2014 Issue. To explain economic development, the starting point is often Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which is taken to explain almost all modern economic growth. The long-standing Smithian paradigm, which posits that the development of trade and the division