Tighter regulations on web series illustrate significant concerns for domestic innovation throughout China.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to expand its influence in Iranian public health matters. The United States should watch this development and explore policies to diminish the IRGC's role in public health.

Sudan has undergone an intense military takeover in the past few weeks and, in response, scores of protestors and civil leaders have taken to the streets to condemn it. While the military seems to be relenting, it may only be a false flag, used as a distraction. The international community has all but lost hope for the people of Sudan. The time to count out Sudan is not here. Now is the time to support the Sudanese people as they fight the good fight for freedom, liberty, and self-rule.

Global and regional trade is based on a series of complex economic and financial relationships between countries that can offer opportunities for economic development. However, such activities depend on a delicate balance that nation-states often have trouble maintaining. This case study will look at how MERCOSUR’s future is in danger due to the economic rivalry between Argentina and Brazil. This article uses the example of MERCOSUR as it is one of the most significant attempts of regional trade and cooperation in the history of the region. When looking at the trade relationship between Brazil and Argentina mentioned in the article, similar fraught relationships that have negatively impacted cooperation agreements around the globe emerge. This piece introduces some of the complex aspects of regionalism and how often "the most powerful agents" shape the past, present, and future of cooperation relationships at the regional level.

While most of the attention has been drawn to nuclear-tipped missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), recent North Korean military modernization has not been limited to nuclear and strategic weapons alone.

Europe still needs natural gas but it can go about it in a green way

El Salvador’s government under the leadership of Nayib Bukele has engaged in some of the most authoritarian measures since the civil war, including the sabotage of an ongoing investigation into the 1981 El Mozote Massacre. The U.S. government has played an equally damaging role in preventing accountability and justice for the victim’s families.

As foreign governments consider releasing centralized digital currencies, the US dollar faces challenges to its global primacy.

Set against a backdrop of heightening regional tensions with significant global repercussions, the relationship between South Korea and Japan continues to deteriorate. The United States needs to take a more active role in the relationship, mediate a resolution, and, by extension, promote multilateral solutions to counteract China’s increasing aggression.

South Korea should include the release of its six illegally detained citizens in North Korea in its international agenda by using a naming and shaming strategy.

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan signifies an important shift in great power competition, with China poised to fill the power vacuum and the U.S. refocused.

The South Korean government’s obstinate will to play around with social distancing measures just does not seem productive anymore. Only now, South Korea is talking about “With Corona,” how South Korea would coexist with COVID-19.

Humanitarian action is supposed to help the people in the world who need it most, but what happens when the people tasked with helping instead cause even more harm? It is time to implement zero-tolerance policies towards sexual exploitation and abuse in the humanitarian aid sector.

This article aims to analyze the intervention and abandonment of Afghanistan by U.S. forces while assessing new developments following the collapse of the government. The author makes policy recommendations for the international and U.S. response to the conflict.

Russian media content analysis often focuses on native internet sources such as VK and Yandex. Yet for activists with an eye towards Western audiences, usage of a non-indigenous platform - YouTube - is gaining prominence.

From European colonialism to U.S. imperialism, foreign powers have only ever been interested in securing their own foreign policy interests, primarily based on the extraction of wealth from the Haitian people.

Minimal and decontextualized coverage of Haitian protests prior to the assassination of Haitian president and close U.S. ally Jovenel Moïse helped safeguard his PHTK party’s catastrophic neoliberal agenda. Since Moïse’s assassination, a media flood on Haiti’s political crisis is setting the stage for further foreign intervention.

This article seeks to dissect the root of the recent civil unrest in South Africa following the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma, while examining the Zuma presidency to uncover where the widening cracks lie within the fractious African National Congress. The author argues that while some of those who participated in the violence may be frustrated with the lack of economic opportunities and failure of the ANC to follow through with its campaign promises, this insurrection was ultimately an attempt by pro-Zuma supporters to manipulate public discord for their own political purpose.

South Korea, Japan, and the United States should know that time and patience are of the essence when mending the severed relation between South Korea and Japan

The Najaf clerical establishment’s influence on Iraq’s political development is undeniable, requiring the United States to consider how Najaf perceives its actions.

Therefore, American foreign policy vis-à-vis Iraq should eschew militarization and instead focus on building Iraq’s governance capacity, a policy palatable to Iraq’s clerical establishment.