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Ashfaq Zaman argues that we need a new refugee repatriation model: one that turns crises into opportunities, that binds states into accountability, and that restores dignity to…
Jong Eun Lee argues that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky has bargaining leverage that is appropriate in negotiating with Trump’s transactional diplomacy.   As the…
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union. Vladislav M. Zubok. Yale University Press. 2022. Vladislav Zubok‘s influential book, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, …
Vinay Bhargava and Blair Glencorse argue that it is time the Bank took civil society more seriously. Back in 2017, the World Bank began an ambitious effort to improve the…
Vinay Bhargava and Blair Glencorse argue that it is time the Bank took civil society more seriously. Back in 2017, the World Bank began an ambitious effort to improve the…
Dr. Stephanie López explores how recent changes in U.S. migration policies affect Colombia, which hosts nearly 3 million displaced Venezuelans. The surprising – and shocking for…
Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis: Conservation in a World of Inequality by Chris Armstrong. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024. 176 pp., £31.49 hardcover 9780198853596…
Kristian Alexander argues that political assassination, once primarily aimed at heads of state, has re-emerged globally and now targets a far wider range of public figures. Driven…
As China’s development model falters, its systemic contradictions demand urgent scrutiny—not only to explain Beijing’s behavior, but also to guide how the world navigates the…
George Gallwey argues that stabelcoins are part of a broader geopolitical strategy of using private innovation to project monetary influence abroad. Stablecoins have moved from…