The School of Foreign Service celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with festivities during Centennial Weekend. These included a panel on humanitarian aid, its institutional challenges, and the…
Hong Kong, once renowned as an apolitical and orderly British entrepôt, is now seething with political discontent, student unrest, and pro-democracy protests. Nothing less than the future of “one country,…
This fall will be a crucial test for democracy in Poland. The country will hold parliamentary elections on October 13. The critical question is whether the ruling populist Law and…
The following is the second of a two-part series. Public Reputational Accountability Gaps and Failures “The category of public reputational accountability,” Keohane asserts, “is meant to apply to situations…
The following is the first of a two-part series. With the nomination and eventual appointment of Gina Haspel to the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), debates around the…
Cybersecurity of medical devices is not only an issue of privacy, but a matter of life and death. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should increase its leadership role…
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is a testament to liberal normative aspiration in international politics—the conviction that there should be a neutral juridical body,…
May 16, 2019
Forum: LGBTQ+ Issues in International Relations, Society & Culture
The struggle for LGBTIQ rights in Kenya provides a unique and fascinating case study of the powerful social change taking place right now. On May 24, 2019, the High…
Despite having a smaller indigenous population than many other Iberian-American countries, Brazil’s constitutional acknowledgment of the rights of Brazilian Indians dates back many decades. Indeed, the Constitutions of 1934, 1937,…
On an early winter morning in 2015, Indian Railways leveled over 1,500 homes in Shakur Basti, Delhi without notice or rehabilitation, rendering over 6,000 people homeless in the bitter…
