The only sense in which refugees could be framed as a “burden” or “cost”, takes a strictly narrow conceptualisation of “economic” and a very short-term view of life.
The Man in the High Castle is the perfect ‘distraction’ for a country riven by increasingly bitter culture wars, and a complete breakdown in civil discourse.
The story of Jamaica’s efforts to plot a successful path to development highlights that while IMF support is needed to keep the economy solvent, the reforms do little to bring about real change.
If we are ever going to actually end genocide, we need to intervene while it’s happening, not apologize or regret our lack of action years later, after it ends.
Soft power projects such as a beauty contest in Sanya, are rarely political at first, but politics finds ways to intrude into even the most innocuous of things.
Finding solutions to refugee situations is a struggle of the politically excluded for political inclusion. Resolving displacement inextricably links with achieving peace.
Turkey’s foreign policy following the Arab uprisings is considered volatile and difficult questions remain for the actors involved in Syria and the wider Middle East.
The majority of academics seem to fail to understand the relationship between the pressure on academic freedom and the neoliberal-conservative pressure on the labour force.
Reconciliation without forgiveness exists between Japan and Korea. Genuine reconciliation should be pursued to complement to what political reconciliation has missed.
The Canadian approach shows the possibility of a future for thousands of Syrian youth through resettlement, as important as any other effort to confront the Syrian war.
