The spread of disinformation campaigns challenges the integrity of public discourse, democratic processes, and social harmony.
Cuban intelligence adeptly evolved post-Cold War by prioritizing information acquisition and alliances to safeguard its national interests.
The contradiction between China’s discourse on and practices of sovereignty constitutes a form of ‘organized hypocrisy’, explicable by the logic of capitalist expansion.
Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
China had the calculations of authority and timing wrong in gifting pandas to Taiwan, turning Taiwanese sentiment against trust and goodwill toward the mainland.
Patriarchal values fuel conflict, confine Iranian women to home, and impact their security, driving some to choose self-immolation. Yet, some also find agency in that.
Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina show fundamental issues in the international efforts of peace-building and transitional justice during the post-war reconstruction period.
The continuation of Latin American populism will likely produce messianic leaders characterized by beautiful promises that often do not respect the reality of things.
The Sudanese Civil War shows that mechanisms by which coups come to resemble ‘peace-inducing shocks’ are easily interrupted by ‘spoilers’ who oppose the terms of peace.
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