The relationship between India and Pakistan has long been a turbulent and violent one. While by no means peaceful, their relations today rely more on economic and political action than military action.
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What was sold as a straightforward task has turned into a political nightmare.
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Has the Chinese Communist Party found a way to make propaganda cool?
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Non-violence is a key moral precept of Buddhism. How do Myanmarese nationalists reconcile this with the genocide of the Rohingya?
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Cameroon’s Anglophone north has complained of discrimination by the French-speaking majority for decades. Ambazonia represents an attempt to change that.
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Violence has again erupted in disputed Kashmir. Both sides must now attempt to create a better mechanism that promotes regional stability.
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By taking steps towards supporting and incorporating transgender people in society, Uruguay is emerging as a symbol of LGBTQ progress in Latin America and around the world.
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Kerala is often referred to as “God’s own country” by native inhabitants. But underneath it all lies yet another instance of powerful men using their authority to engage in sexual misconduct.
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Within Venezuela, Guaidó is a symbol of hope, however to the United States, he is a strategic opportunity. At only 35-years-old and serving his first term as an assemblyman, he is an impressionable young leader with a personality often reminiscent of a young Barack Obama.
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While the Arab world may not be ready to fully integrate Syria into the realm of regional policy making, small signs of warming relationships are springing up at the initiative of individual states.
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A striking move by the Supreme Court of India, causing massive discontent to the religious castes, is not just a matter of religion and women’s rights, but has become political in nature, targeting the stature of the Brahmin caste and their hold on India’s society.
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Ever since the re-election of President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s political environment has transformed into a battle for democracy itself.
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Opposing Bashar al-Assad is the correct moral position, but history shows that removing one evil is likely to bring an evil even greater still.
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Voluntourism, the practice of traveling internationally to aid a foreign country, is a multi-billion dollar industry that attracts over 1 million participants worldwide. But how much good does it actually do?
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Elected to be the new leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer may prove to be a better leader of the Christian Democratic Union than Angela Merkel.
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As a partner in an unstable diplomatic relationship, China has long been the scapegoat for opportunistic American politicians.
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Seafood is one of the largest trade commodities in the world. The seafood industry employs over 260 million workers globally and 3 billion people rely on seafood as their primary source of protein…
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“Behind the scenes a small and powerful group of elites within the political parties is secretly in charge, and they are responsible for the misguided development of past decades,” the manifesto for the emerging German political party called Alternative für Deutschland warns…
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The internet is not spreading democracy in China. Unlike the crumbling Great Wall of China, the Great Firewall of China is standing stronger than ever…
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Since the election of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April of 2018, Ethiopia has been transformed by a series of energetically executed democratic reforms…
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