Turkey’s multi-party democracy is experiencing an alarming phenomenon: a complicit opposition in the Republican People’s Party (CHP). Overshadowed by the…
The below article is the first installment in a two-part series. This installment is titled “The Politics of Sacrosanctity and Elf Belief in Iceland.” For centuries, Icelanders observed a set…
Once upon a time, in legal circles, there was just one conversation—Law 1.0. This was—and still is—a conversation about how settled legal principles should be applied to a…
Between November 23 and December 7, 2019, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB), a small group of islands in the Southern Pacific, overwhelmingly voted for full independence from Papua…
Genocide ravaged Rwanda in 1994. From April to July, over one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered. For the past twenty-six years, Rwanda has engaged in an unprecedented…
The Arctic is warming at a rate that is almost twice the global average. While one can generalize about the global impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels,…
Iran is currently facing an incredibly unlucky alignment of pressure sources that are interrelated and will force the regime to engage in risky or experimental behavior, most likely in 2020.
In 2010, a drug trafficking group moved into the heart of Honduras’ Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. At gunpoint, the gang terrorized indigenous Pech and Miskitu residents into giving up their…
A young woman, social entrepreneur, and new mother in Mexico named Mariana recently told me, “solidarity and action are what will help us overcome this crisis. We aren’t just waiting…
The Central African Republic (CAR) could be a case of hope. After years of violence, the main armed groups and the government signed a peace agreement last year. At the…
