Year: 2021
146 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Northern Ireland: New Trouble for a Post-Brexit Era
On April 7, 2021 a group of young men and children from the Protestant, loyalist Shankill Road area of West Belfast started a riot. They attacked one of the city’s many …
July 25, 2021
- Business & Economics
‘Green’ Extractivism and the Limits of Energy Transitions: Lithium, Sacrifice, and Maldevelopment in the Americas
Transitions Months after former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced from office in October of 2019, Elon Musk triggered conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum…
July 20, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
EU Migration Policy Reform: Alternatives to the Australian Model
Introduction The Common European Asylum System was not well prepared for the 2015 refugee crisis. The European Union had been pursuing the harmonization of asylum policy since…
July 20, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
The Maldives: An Island Battleground for India-China Competition
An Intensifying Regional Rivalry One of the biggest stories in Asian geopolitics in recent years has been China and India’s intensifying rivalry. The two have a complicated…
July 16, 2021
- Business & Economics
Intersecting Interests and Coincidental Compatibility: How China, the EU, and the United States Can Coordinate Their Push for Globalizing Green Finance
As a key component of meeting the Paris Agreement, green finance has been a vital issue in climate change mitigation after China initiated a G20 working group in 2016. Since, …
July 15, 2021
- Business & Economics
The African Union Private Sector Development Strategy: A Catalyzer of Socio-economic Transformation in Africa
During the last two decades before COVID-19, Africa recorded an average annual 4.6 % growth rate despite an unfavorable international economic and financial environment. This…
July 15, 2021
- Business & Economics
COVID-19: An Accelerator for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions?
A Turning Point for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions? The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread and tragic destruction in terms of human lives, and, through efforts to…
July 14, 2021
- Science & Technology
Now is the Time for Transatlantic Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence
Many assume that the European Union is the world’s technology watchdog, while in contrast the United States is an unruly digital Wild West. Media, policymakers, and the general…
July 13, 2021
- Science & Technology
The Ageism of the Pandemic
“Fully Vaccinated and Time to Party: If You Are 70,” proclaimed The New York Times’ frontpage headline in March 2021. The story detailed how older people were going out…
July 12, 2021
- Science & Technology
Promises and Pitfalls: China’s Financing of the Atewa Bauxite Mining Project in Ghana
President Xi Jinping has touted China’s recently unveiled Five-Year Plan as his country’s pursuit of ‘ecological civilization,’ a vision of promoting environmental…
July 11, 2021