Despite 30 years of policy and public investment, disparities in university education persist in Australia. A government review of Australian higher education started in 2022, offers the opportunity to design…
The democratic institutions created for Northern Ireland with the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in 1998 have not functioned for some 40 percent of the ensuing twenty-five years. This is, in…
The closely integrated relationships of certain religious communities present a compelling counter-narrative to views on interfaith conflict. Indic-Islamic engagement in several South Asian “guru-pir” groups challenges the conception of religions…
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine’s decision to permit parishes to celebrate Christmas on December 25 appeared to be a political ploy designed to diminish the influence of the Russian Orthodox…
Peru’s recent protests have been the most intense in the country in at least a century, leaving a tragic toll of at least sixty human lives. The causes of the…
Ethnonationalism is a strong force in Korean society, and the South Korean state has pursued an active diasporic engagement policy based on this principle. Nevertheless, co-ethnic return migrants from less-developed…
International higher education in major Western countries has been pursued both as an export industry to obtain economic profit and as an immigrant recruitment platform to obtain top talents. This…
The universal relaxation of China’s one-child policy since 2016 has not produced sustained population growth as desired by Beijing. Now incentivizing births for the party-state’s economic and political objectives, China’s…
Most of today’s public discussions of space policy focus on either national security concerns or the economic regulation of the growing space industry. This article argues for an expansion…
Statelessness affects millions of people around the globe. The experiences of stateless Vietnamese minority populations in Cambodia suggest that much broader, deeper, and context-specific responses are needed to tackle the…
