Sanctions Embolden China. It’s Time for a New Approach
Reading Time: 5 minutes Trump-era sanctions on China have divided the globe. The Biden administration requires a more nuanced strategy to counter China’s growing influence.
Amid Charges of Election Fraud, Uganda Reelects Museveni
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite serious competition from rising opposition candidate, Bobi Wine, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni wins election to a seventh term in office.
Switzerland Risks Becoming Beijing’s Security Satellite
Reading Time: 8 minutes Switzerland has long worn a public mask of neutrality to conduct business in countries where civil liberties are compromised. Beneath this façade of respectability lies a slippery and ugly truth.
After Trump, Facebook Reckons With an Election in Uganda
Reading Time: 6 minutes Donald Trump isn’t the only leader reluctant to give up power. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been in office for 35 years, and he’s running again.
Azerbaijan Celebrates a Victory Made Possible by Turkey
Reading Time: 5 minutes Turkey’s Erdogan hoped for greater influence through arms aid to Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, but Russia may emerge as the real winner.
Ex-Monk Takes on the Thai Sex Mafia
Reading Time: 11 minutes Human trafficking engulfs an estimated 40 million victims worldwide, most of them women and children. Indonesian Hartanto Gunawan has dedicated the past 16 years to providing girls from Thailand with an alternative.
The Balkan Wars: Return to Slavonski Brod
Reading Time: 14 minutes In Slavonski Brod, Croatia, healing the wounds of war has been difficult, but so too has been dealing with the shock of free market economics and living within the European Union.
US-Canada Plastic Trade Deal Subverts Basel Convention
Reading Time: 11 minutes As the Basel Convention receives a major update, outsiders like the US may suddenly have to face their own trash.
Crimes and Punishments of Radical Artists in Putin’s Russia
Reading Time: 6 minutes Today’s Russian performance artists want nothing less than to annihilate political power.
Jungle Jabbah and the Fight Against War Crimes Impunity
Reading Time: 14 minutes A Philadelphia court’s recent upholding of the conviction of Liberian war criminal Jungle Jabbah is a major step in the global fight against impunity.