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Environment

Drought in the Americas: Equal insecurity?

The American media publishes dozens of articles everyday on what has been the worst drought in decades for the state of California. Photos of the changing Californian landscape have appeared in nearly every major news source. T...
by Taylor Stenberg
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Asia

Benign Or Bellicose? China And The South China Sea: The Ambiguities Of The Peaceful Rise Paradigm

“China loves peace” (Li, 2014). This solemn claim by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has probably sparked scepticism, if not misbelief, in Washington, Tokyo or Canberra. The recent Chinese charm offensive reiterating the Mid...
by Leonard Schuette
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Asia

North Korea: Business As Usual

Whilst almost every sovereign state has, to some degree, embraced the progress of the 21st century, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), by its own volition, has isolated itself from the rest.
by Simon Fraser
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Russia
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This Russian Lawmaker Thinks the US Can Take Russia Off The Internet

A deputy in the Russian parliament thinks the United States might cut off Russia’s Internet and suggests Russians take measures to get ready for the information blackout. Ilya Kostunov, the deputy in question, believes th...
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Iran
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US-Iran Talks: Nuclear Flirting

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, few countries have challenged Iran’s ‘international villain’ status. The United States is the loudest champion of this animosity and mutually demonizing rhetoric. The word ‘...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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North America
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Cantor Canned; Run, Ryan, Run

On June 10th 2014, the Tea Party movement may have either saved or shattered the Republican Party. Republican Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost to Randolph-Macon College (University) Economics Professor Da...
by J P Carroll
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Eurasia

Ukraine On The Edge of Civil War

The situation in the Eastern Ukraine is creating a concern among Western leaders, especially in central Europe and Baltic states. It is constantly changing. The pro-Russian separatist groups create chaos on streets of Donetsk,...
by Mateusz Krupczyński
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Human Rights

The War Against Killer Robots

“As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever survive our own ingenuity.R...
by Isabella Grotto
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Green
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The Cost of Carbon: Climate Change and Our Way of Life in North America

The human impact of global warming is real. Changing climates aren’t something that will happen in five, 10, or 100 years from today. They are happening now, and ways of life that we’ve known for generations are dis...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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