The Beginning of the End? “The Year of Elections” marked the eighth year since US President Donald Trump’s initial, remarkable rise to the American presidency. 2024 saw populist figureheads, from ...
Alan Cai Alan is a staff writer for the HIR. He is interested in Great Power Competition, intrastate conflict, and client regimes. He is a sophomore studying Government and History, with a minor in ...
Madam Atifete Jahjaga served as Kosovo's fourth president from 2011 to 2016. She started her career in the military, attaining the rank of Major General of the Kosovo Police. Being just 35 years old ...
Two hundred and fifty thousand workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon are currently struggling to survive in an exploitative system. Conflicts within the country due to an economic recession and ...
A public interest technologist, Bruce Schneier is the author of the internationally renowned blog "Schneier on Security" and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Your profile ...
In 2023, trade between China and Russia reached US$240 billion, a 26.3 percent increase from the previous year and more than double from 2018 (US$107 billion). Collaborations like the 2012 ...
Chris Cunneen is a Professor of Criminology at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney. He specializes in Aboriginal and indigenous issues, ...
If one were to classify the employment process in the UAE as modern slavery, recruitment fees would serve as the first step towards enslavement. Even before arriving in the UAE, migrant workers find ...
Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, provided 45 percent of EU gas imports before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As European countries seek to condemn Russia’s actions, the ...
A leader in exile. Children forced into cultural assimilation. A barrage of failed protests. For more than 50 years, China, a global superpower with a population over 400 times that of Tibet, has ...
Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Both nations’ reluctance boils down to their dispute over a string of islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan’s ...
The potential for exploitation permits to be granted in the near future has come amidst struggles to develop a comprehensive legal framework among ISA members for deep-sea mining operations. Since ...