Alan Cai Alan is an Associate Editor for the HIR. He is interested in Great Power Competition, intrastate conflict, and client regimes. He is a sophomore studying Government, with a minor in Economics ...

By understanding the current AI regulatory landscape through lessons learned from prominent global climate treaties, we can better understand how to cultivate international agreement on governing this ...

Imagine this scenario: you learn that a young woman is missing in your city. The next day, someone finds her body on the side of the highway. She has been stabbed dozens of times and is now ...

Amidst global discussion of the increasingly competitive dynamic emerging between China and the United States, Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents a potential battlefield. As the country works to ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) seemed until recently to be science fiction, countless corporations across the globe are now researching ways to implement this technology in everyday life. AI works ...

Both US lawmakers and Ukrainian officials have raised concerns regarding the final destination of weapons donated and sold to Ukraine. Ukraine has historically had one of the largest black markets for ...

Even though scientists knew how to extract the alkaloid cocaine from the leaf, the indigenous communities in the Andean countries were the main group cultivating the plant. As the 20th century ...

Every year, US citizens collectively consume 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate. While this sweet and indulgent treat is a staple for Valentine’s Day and Halloween, its colorful and shiny packaging ...

On September 11, 1980, General Augusto Pinochet, head of the authoritarian military junta that staged a coup d’état in Chile, arranged a national plebiscite to ratify a new constitution. The ...

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 ...

South Korea and Singapore are, in many ways, seemingly alike. In the latter half of the 20th century, both nations began to rapidly develop in large part due to highly protectionist policies pioneered ...

The picture is a popular one: Cuban doctors born, raised, and trained on the island, working side-by-side with doctors in countries around the world, providing healthcare to patients and training to ...