A country hostile toward women, Pakistan faced a reckoning on March 8 when thousands took to the streets to commemorate International Women’s Day—a demonstration of how Pakistani women grow stronger…
Elections this spring in Indonesia and the Philippines are powerful reminders of how far democracy has come in Southeast Asia, and how far it still has to go. In Indonesia,…
On January 2, 2019, President Xi Jinping claimed that China “makes no promise to renounce the use of force” against Taiwan. He made the statement during a speech commemorating…
Russia and China have enjoyed a key economic partnership since the early 2000s, and especially since 2014, when Western sanctions in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea pushed Moscow closer…
Since his first-annual New Year’s speech in 2012 setting North Korea’s policy priorities, Kim Jong Un has emphasized his commitment to economic development, notably promising his people that they will…
On March 27, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund welcomed David Guttenfelder, eight-time winner of World Press Photo Award and a Photographer for National Geographic, to share his experience photographing North…
Each time Pakistan and India make the news together, one can expect that the long-festering conflict between the two countries has taken a turn for the worse. Nearly every American…
On March 19, the Georgetown University Muslim Students Association welcomed Dr. James Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, for a discussion of human rights…
With increased foreign investment, most notably through the Belt and Road Initiative, China has been exerting economic and political influence around the world, from Southeast Asia and Africa to Eastern…
Since its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has followed the lead of the United States and other countries who have pursued bilateral and regional trade negotiations as multilateral…
