Pipe bombs and IEDs have finally ripped apart the West from its African allies. For over a decade, the United States and France have built strategic relationships across the Sahel, pairing counterterror efforts with democratic reform. However, the sheer force of insurgent violence has exposed these partnerships as a failure. Starting in 2020, the conditions […]
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Unmanned and Unstoppable: A New Wave of Guerrilla Drone Warfare
A shapeshifting technology: sometimes in the form of a child’s toy to see the world from up high, most other times a vehicle for explosives or tools for aerial assaults. Both versions are now more accessible than ever. The Recent Evolution of Drone Warfare Access to drone warfare used to be limited to state power, […]
A Filipino Take on Game of Thrones
The President and Vice President of the Philippines are currently at war with each other in a feud that seeks to burn the entire nation. In 2021, Ferdinand Bong Bong Marcos formed an alliance with Sara Duterte in one of the most peculiar political match ups of the twenty-first century. They would go on to […]
The Dark Stain of Ethnic “Unity”
In 1994, the world watched on in horror as Rwanda plunged into violence on a staggering scale. Today, over 30 years later, history is quietly repeating itself in Sudan. And the devastation is so immense that scars left on the landscape, the remnants of systemic slaughter, are captured clearly by satellite imagery. While these scenes […]
“Good Food,” “Good Life,” Bad Ethics
Nestlé’s plethora of water scandals depicts the extent to which profit overpowers ethics, and the lack of effective regulation, which is already perpetuating detrimental circumstances worldwide. There is no benefit to accepting this as the norm – we should empower regulatory activism and shift the status quo to one that gives more value to a human life than a dollar.
The Geopolitical Power of Hallyu
Does the name “J. Y. Park” ring a bell? If so, chances are that you have brushed shoulders with the K-pop industry. While not a household name outside of K-pop fandom circles, this Korean songwriter and entertainment CEO also maintains the almost unexplainable role of “weird dad of the K-pop industry” – from overly-autotuned and […]
Four Years After the Fall of Kabul, Afghan Refugees Have Nowhere to Turn
In the months after the United States-backed government of Afghanistan first fell to the Taliban, international condemnation of the regime and support for Afghan refugees were swift and widespread. But now, the shifting tides of international immigration policy have definitively turned against Afghan refugees. As Iran, Pakistan, and the United States all begin to either […]
Controversy Sparks Amid Chinese Military Bases in Africa
In an international world of constant strategic moves, especially when it comes to military assets, there is bound to be conflict between countries. This time, one such conflict happens to be flaring between China and the United States over nothing less than the continent of Africa. A proposed naval base on Africa’s coastline is causing major […]
South Africa Claims Genocide
Under the United Nations Convention on Genocide, “genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: On January 26th, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released an interim ruling on South Africa’s case against Israel. In bringing […]
Volcano Fears Heat Up in Iceland
In November of last year, after detecting a flow of moving magma stretching nine miles long under Grindavík, a fishing village in southwest Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, officials ordered an evacuation of at least 3,000 people living in the area. Although the evacuation took place as a preventative measure, not because citizens were in immediate danger, […]