- AfricaHuman RightsInternational LawSecurity and Conflict
Milestones and Limits of International Justice: The Darfur Case
by Jade Faircloth December 6, 2025Considered the 21st century’s first genocide, over 300,000 people were killed and 2.6 million were displaced in the Darfur region during Omar al-Bashir’s dictatorship…
- AfricaFranceGeopoliticsMilitarySecurity and ConflictTerrorism
The Sahel Without the West
by Sage Ruttenberg December 6, 2025In September 2025, France suspended all counterterrorism efforts with Mali. This severing of relations followed Mali’s arrest of a French agent accused of plotting…
- AIEconomicsFeaturedMilitaryThe International Economy
The Bubble That Could Shape the Century
by Ivana Prokopenko November 25, 2025The AI-Bubble “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to be either the best or the worst thing to happen to humanity,” says entrepreneur and trillionaire…
- ChinaEast AsiaFeaturedGeopoliticsSecurity and Conflict
Weaponized Dependence: How the Global Reliance on Rare Earth Minerals Has Strengthened China’s Geopolitical Leverage
by Brianna Bell November 18, 2025During a visit to Baotou, Inner Mongolia, in 1987, former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously said that while “the Middle East has oil, China…
- DemocracyDiplomacyEuropeFeaturedGlobalizationHuman RightsInternational LawSociety and Culture
Geneva, Still the Peace Capital? Reflections from an American Student Abroad
by Charlie Donlan August 8, 2025While walking through the old town of Geneva, Switzerland on my first day in this unfamiliar city, I came across a building with an…
- EnergyEnvironmental ChangeEuropeFeaturedRussiaSustainabilityUkraine
Ecocide: The Untold Impact of War on the Climate in Ukraine
by Clarissa Damesyn May 20, 2025Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched by Russia on February 24, 2022, the world has watched in horror as the greatest European conflict…
