Regimes & Governance

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Business & Economics

Illuminating Nigeria: Blurring the Lines Between the Grid and Off-Grid Electricity

Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, faces significant challenges in its power sector, including frequent power cuts, poor power quality, and limited electricity access in rural areas. To address these issues,…

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Society & Culture

Laboratory of Democracy? Turkey’s Scientific Institutions After the July 15 Coup

Since Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt a year ago, hardly a week goes by without news of new firings, suspensions, detentions, and arrests. By the end of June 2017,…

October 7, 2017
The library of the Telyashayakh Mosque in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Human Rights & Development

Time for Renewal of Religious Independence in Uzbekistan

Today, long after the eighth century spread of Islam into Central Asia that largely displaced the region’s Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Nestorian Christianity, 88 percent of the 28 million people of…

September 21, 2013
Center of Beirut
Global Governance

View From Beirut: Failures of the Lebanese Political System

Lebanon belongs to a class of places whose names evoke visceral images unable to fade into history. Perhaps only Bosnia, Darfur, and Somalia carry the implied violence and…

August 23, 2013
Prime Minister Abe with Japanese and American cabinet members
Global Governance

Prime Minister Abe’s Diplomatic Agenda

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August 13, 2013
Global Governance

Mutual Frustration: The State of Russian-American Relations

When President Obama first came into office in January 2009, his administration announced that it wanted to improve Russian-American relations, which it believed had deteriorated due to the unilateral and…

August 9, 2013
Online Archive

‘O Gigante Acordou’: Brazilian National Protests for Policy Reforms and Why They Matter

SÃO PAULO – On Thursday, 6 June 2013 on Avenida Paulista, one of the largest swaths of streets in the center of São Paulo’s financial district, a small group of people,…

July 29, 2013
Online Archive

The ASEAN Synthesis: Human Rights, Non-Intervention, and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Integration of Regions  ||  Return to The Integration of Regions index “The preoccupation with non-intervention rendered ASEAN hostile terrain for any…

July 26, 2013
Online Archive

Forum: The Integration of Regions

Click here to view as PDF  ||   Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Integration of Regions  ||  Return to The Integration of Regions index   Regional…

July 26, 2013
Online Archive

The Arctic Council as Regional Body

Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Integration of Regions  ||  Return to The Integration of Regions index “The main areas of interest revolve around strengthening circumpolar co-operation…

July 26, 2013
Online Archive

Mr. Abe’s Third Arrow: Designed with an Economist’s Vision but Shaped by a Bureaucrat’s Hand

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June 28, 2013