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Sanctions as Stimulus for Bilateral Trade Between China and Belarus
Belarusian stamp issued 2012, highlighting Sino-Belarusian ties. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. A Chinese construction project in Belarus recently gained quite a bit of media traction. The truth...
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The True Costs of Australia’s Election
Constructing makeshift barriers out of coral rocks to break the swell of increasingly large tides in Kiribati. Photo credit: UN ISDR The President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands...
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Organized Crime in Mexico and the United States: Fighting two problems
Mexican marines in an operation against Los Zetas. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Abstract Organized crime contains key elements that distinguish it from other forms of criminal activity. In the...
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Is the Arab Spring Coming to China? The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Pro-democracy protests in Beijing, China, 2011. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. ABSTRACT Following the breakdown of autocracies in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya in early 2011, the international...
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If I Were To Choose Between Being Born a Girl in India or China…
A 1953 Chinese propaganda poster reading: “Freedom in marriage; happiness and good luck.” Photo credit: ChinesePosters.net Within the past year, a number of shocking rape cases in India have...
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A Few Good (Wo)men: Gender Inclusion in the United States Military
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Claire E. Ballante, assigned to the Female Engagement Team (FET), holds a child during a patrol with 1st Battalion 2d Marines in Musa Qa’leh, Afghanistan. Photo credit:...
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The Roles of the Mother and the Child in Rural Ghana
Labor is clearly divided in rural communities in Ghana. Sweeping, cooking, washing clothes are some of the tasks that correspond to children and women. Once the boys reach a certain age, they grow...
View ArticleThe Empowerment of Women in South Korea
Political Participation of Women in South Korea The participation of women in the political arena is a growing trend in the twenty-first century. Until the second decade of the twentieth century,...
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The Fear of Looking Weak in International Politics
“I know we oughtn’t to be there, but I can’t get out,” the president said to a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. While he feared entangling the United States more deeply in an...
View ArticleVideo: Seeds of Time Documentary Trailer
Click here to view the embedded video. The Journal spoke with Cary Fowler, described as an “evangelist for seeds” for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2014 issue on Global Food Security. The “Seeds of Time”...
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Hong Kong Demands Democracy: An interview with Michael Davis, University of...
Protestors hold up their hands to show riot police they are unarmed. Photo courtesy of Anjie Zheng. More photos >> Journal of International Affairs:I know you’ve spent some time out in the...
View ArticleCreeping Sharia or Conspicuous Islamophobia?
“This [bill] doesn’t say ‘Sharia law,’” Republican Senator Chris Steineger said in a 2012 speech condemning a Kansas bill—banning foreign, international, and religious law—for targeting Muslims, “but...
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Thought Leadership Forum on 11 December
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View ArticleProtestify: Revolutionizing the Citizen Journalist
“We want to connect [journalists] on the streets with those in the newsroom,” explained Christina Hawatmeh, founder and CEO of Protestify at their Brooklyn launch party on 4 November. Protestify, a...
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Why Civil Resistance May Not Work: Geopolitics and the Effectiveness of...
Memorial ribbons in the Maidan in Kiev. Photo courtesy of Lydia Tomkiw. The movement that overthrew former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 offers a valuable case study for...
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What Remained of the Revolution—Photos from Ukraine, May 2014
February 2014 marked the escalation of Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution—police using live ammunition killed scores and injured hundreds of protestors on 20 February, and former Ukrainian president...
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Scenes of Forced Migration: Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan’s Mafraq govenorate opened in July 2012 to host Syrian refugees fleeing Syria’s ongoing civil war. The camp’s first year was particularly brutal as it was grossly under...
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Between Propaganda and Public Relations: An Analysis of Bashar al-Assad’s...
While autocrats are known for imposing strict regulations on speech, the intrinsic openness of digital communications sets up an interesting challenge. Bashar al-Assad has built an online campaign that...
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Upcoming Thought Leadership Forum on Migration, 28 April 2015
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Forced Displacement, Concentration of Land Property, and the Rentier...
Civil wars are violent contestations of political power and the control of resources. In addition to producing winners and losers and destroying property and infrastructure, civil wars can produce or...
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