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May 16, 2014

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of May 16, 2014

Ashlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. And the results are in: A Modi mandate in India! The five-we…

Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate on March 16, 2014, after learning of poll results showing Narendra Modi of the BJP as the next leader of the world’s largest democracy (Amit Dave/Courtesy Reuters).

August 7, 2019

Climate Change
Sunk Coast Fallacy: How Island Nations Should Approach Climate Diplomacy

Pacific island nations under threat from rising sea levels can translate geopolitical competition in the region into climate action.

Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga delivers remarks at UN Headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016.

August 15, 2011

China
Brazil is in Africa

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (L) and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma join hands during a news conference at the Union Buildings in Pretoria July 9, 2010. (Thomas Mukoya/Courtesy R…

Brazil is in Africa

December 6, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Rape in the Congo: More Than Politics or a Weapon of War

Eastern Congo is notorious for rape perpetrated by Congolese soldiers and irregular militias, often as tool for terrorizing the local population. A shocking new study by Promudo and the Sonke Gender …

View of the market at Bulengo camp for war-displaced people just outside Goma in eastern Congo 26/02/2009.

July 27, 2016

Cuba
Cuba and the American Bar Association

The motto of the American Bar Association (or ABA) is "Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice." It should perhaps be revised to "Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice, and Travel to Cuba."  Right now t…