Category: Society & Culture
112 Articles
- Society & Culture
To Each Their Own: Russian Strategy Toward East Asia and Europe
Russia Embraces Belt and Road, but Aims for Greater Eurasia For a while, Moscow seemed hesitant about how to respond to the BRI. The Kremlin’s calculus changed following the…
December 18, 2018
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Light and Darkness in Inter-Korean Relations during and after the Olympics
In the past ten years, not a single South Korean tourist has travelled to Mt. Kŭmgang, a previously popular tourist spot in North Korea. Similarly, up to 50,000 North Korean…
April 4, 2018
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The Politics of Sexuality and the LGBTQ Crackdown in Egypt
To the outside observer, this may be somewhat puzzling: didn’t the current government come to power after the military coup that removed the Islamist President Mohammad Morsi…
February 16, 2018
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Things Fall Apart: Populism and Foreign Policy
Trump does indeed have guiding principles, but they are process principles and not the substantive principles that we are used to seeing in a president. What shapes his foreign…
October 20, 2017
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The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea
The skeptics have a point, but they are also shortsighted. They are shortsighted, in large part, because they fail to recognize that the transition to a multicultural society is…
October 10, 2017
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American Jews and Israel: The End of ‘Israel, Right or Wrong’
The relationship between American Jews and Israel is far from static, having changed considerably over the years. Before the State of Israel was established in 1948, most…
October 10, 2017
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Laboratory of Democracy? Turkey’s Scientific Institutions After the July 15 Coup
Established in 1963 to support state-led economic planning, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) identifies and promotes areas where government…
October 7, 2017
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Poland’s Crisis: A Chance for European Union Reform
Some are already counting down the days of the Polish democracy, considering EU pressure on Poland’s government to withdraw some of its recently contested laws to be the…
March 15, 2016
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The Failure of Polio Eradication: Blame Geopolitics, Not Religion
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria are all states where Islamist extremists operate, interrupting processes of governance and challenging or blocking polio vaccination programs.…
April 16, 2015
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Mockingbird Morality in Global Politics
The Capitol recently commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” during which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a…
August 28, 2013