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Bangladesh’s Geopolitical Position Provides for Unique Opportunities
Born during the height of the Cold War, Bangladesh is a nation state that is uniquely embroiled in the machinations of geopolitics. There seems to have…
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Imported Deforestation: How Europe Contributes to Tree Loss Worldwide, and What We Can Do About It
Forest area is increasing in Europe, mainly because farms are getting fewer and smaller. This should be good news, but it must be put into perspective…
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Afghanistan Nightmare: A Humanitarian Crisis That Threatens to Dwarf All Others
Following the U.S. withdrawal, desperation amid food and medicine shortages It was the love of her parents that brought Ruqia all the way from northern Afghanistan…
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Justice For Assange is Justice For All
When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had been dragged from his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy, he said,…
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How to Create Global Citizens?
To take full advantage of this diversity, students need to be equipped with multicultural collaborative skills. Over the past fifteen years, experts in higher education have…
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A Tale of Two Facebook Leaks
IN APRIL, SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE a Facebook employee named Frances Haugen became the most famous whistle blower in the company’s history, The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong…
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Why COP26 Will Fail
UN Climate Change Conferences have failed to produce a model of global governance that can tame power politics, let alone forge a sense of shared destiny…
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Afghanistan: What is The Taliban’s Religious Ideology?
Despite the Taliban's military victory, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to impose their extremely conservative religious view of society on the…
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With AUKUS in Place, Now What for Key Players in The Indo-Pacific?
The 15 September announcement of AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership between the US, the UK and Australia, signalled a dramatic shift in Asia’s geopolitical balance of…
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Will This COP Be Different?
Limiting global warming to 1.5º Celsius remains just about attainable, but the path to this target is formidable. The United Nations climate summit now underway in…
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Competitive Authoritarianism and Pakistan
Pakistan has been a transitional democracy since the fall of President Pervez Musharraf’s military dictatorship At the present moment, any unbiased researcher au fait with regime…
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The Climate Crisis Is Also a Global Health Crisis
Climate change is bad for your health. That is the unequivocal finding of The Lancet’s annual “Countdown” report, which was published last week by a team…