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As more countries flirt with democratic backsliding, we should all be concerned. We can look to academic freedom as a gauge.
The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
The resort to armed struggle brought the Communist Party and the African National Congress much closer together during their time in exile.
African countries should adopt measures that strategically play rivals against each other. They should implement long-term strategies and domestic policies for dealing with strategic partners.
Tensions are high across the Taiwan Strait. But what are the origins of the relationship between China and Taiwan?
Disinformation is being privatized around the world. This new industry is built on a dangerous combination of cheap labor, high-tech algorithms and emotional national narratives.
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
African states have an important role to play in promoting a total ban on nuclear weapons.
As the space race is resumed, and expanded to include private corporations, it is more important than ever to lay the groundwork for peaceful collaboration.
A historian explains how the Taliban emerged out of the decades of chaos that followed the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan in 1978.
A 70-year-old Cold War-era treaty among the three nations is finding renewed importance in response to the global rise of Chinese power and influence.
Soeharto’s rise to become the billionaire autocrat of the world’s fourth largest country would have seemed very unlikely in his childhood.
Kennan was one of America’s few true experts on Soviet affairs. He famously urged a “Containment” strategy to prevent Soviet expansionism, advising against military responses and arms build-ups.
Nehru was a fervent believer in what became known as ‘non-alignment’ — perhaps his greatest contribution to the 20th century world.
Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is part of a long history of athletes seeking protection or the chance to start a new life at the Olympics.
The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
The recent Pentagon report has more questions than answers when it comes to UFOs. Here’s why that’s not surprising.
African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China
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