Year: 2021
146 Articles
- Science & Technology
PART II: Climate Change, Land Use Change, and Mountain Disasters
Development Amid Hazards What you don’t know about mountain hazards may kill you. Accurate hazard mapping and assessment can avoid overly risky construction, thereby saving…
September 1, 2021
- Science & Technology
From Fast to Slow: How to Construct a Better Balance in the Fashion System
The fashion system needs a new paradigm. While fast fashion has achieved international success from a business perspective, the industry’s supply chain and consumption has…
August 30, 2021
- Global Governance
The Tip of the Iceberg or a New Low in EU-Russian Diplomatic Relations?
Introduction The aftermath of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the leader of the political opposition to President Putin, caused deep frictions compounding the pre-existing…
August 28, 2021
- Conflict & Security
The Indo-Pacific Strategy: Promoting Democracy in South Asia
The United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy was created to counter China’s military and economic expansion in the Indo-Pacific region, a vast geographic area stretching from the…
August 27, 2021
- Science & Technology
PART I: Climate Change, Land Use Change, and Mountain Disasters
Part I. Shifting Mountain Hazards and Early Warning With their difficult terrain, climate, and tectonic activity, mountain regions pose challenges to transportation, resource…
August 23, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
The Uyghur Genocide through the Lens of the Child
Some members of the international community are growing increasingly aware of the human rights crisis in the homeland of the Uyghurs, a group of Turkic people indigenous to East…
August 17, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Opportunities and Challenges Affecting Migration in the Northern Triangle
Under the Trump administration’s system, mass incarceration and the subsequent deportation of immigrants became the main responses to those seeking asylum and other relief…
August 12, 2021
- Business & Economics
Preventing the Next Systemic Emerging Markets Debt Crisis: Debt Affordability for Emerging Markets in a Post-Pandemic World
The hysteresis to sovereign debt affordability for emerging markets due to the pandemic is difficult to overstate. The financial resources of most EMs are already strained from…
August 5, 2021
- Global Governance
Belarus: Evolution in a Stalemate
Roughly 700,000 Belarusians took to the streets to demand Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s resignation. Peaceful protests were followed by unprecedented police violence and repression.…
August 2, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Bringing Peace to Whom? What is at Stake in the Intra-Afghan Peace Talks
Although the war between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban has been at a stalemate for years, the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha, Qatar mark a breakthrough as the…
July 28, 2021