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Beijing’s Global Media Offensive by Joshua Kurlantzick
Ahead of the 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa, the front page of the Cape Times featured two different stories on China which highlighted Beijing’s multifaceted campaign to influence media…
A Proposal to Manage Human Migration
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) last fall focused the world’s attention on the many climate-related crises to come, including floods and droughts; inhospitable heat; saltwater intrusion and inundation; the loss…
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition edited by Evan S. Medeiros
Evan S. Medeiros offers a useful collection of essays that examine US-China relations from the 1970s towards our more recent, turbulent days. The defining characterization of US-China relations throughout the…
Unveiling Purpose and Agency in Kashmiri Women’s Participation in Militancy
The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan traces its origins back to the partition of British India in 1947, marking the beginning of a longstanding dispute that continues to ignite…
North African states and communities are no strangers to careful water management and its relevance to effective governance in challenging times. Old underground water channels, ingenious methods of water storage…
The Contradictions of the Party-State: China’s Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited the debate regarding the relative merits of democratic, illiberal, and authoritarian rule; specifically, which system has more effectively responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and more…
How U.S. History Can Save North Macedonia and Defeat Putinism in the Balkans
Given the spectacular killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the less-than-spectacular Ukrainian counter-offensive, it’s looking a lot tougher to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fortunately, the United States has a rare…
Post-Soviet no more – the transformative impact of war on Russia’s neighbors
This is a shortened, significantly revised article based on the authors’ chapter “Shifting balances – the war and Russia’s neighbours,” published in the report “Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the…
A World Historical Perspective on the War in Ukraine and the China-Taiwan Standoff
As the world faces a protracted war in Ukraine with no clear end in sight and a tense standoff in the Taiwan Strait with potential for catastrophic escalation, the time…
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