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Promoting Reconciliation Between Japan & South Korea to Foster Strategic Cohesion
The United States (U.S.) faces many challenges in the Indo-Pacific, headlined by an evolving geopolitical rivalry with China stemming from notable economic, security, and human rights concerns. Yet despite perhaps the most significant strategic rebalancing since the Cold War, the U.S. remains unprepared to adequately confront this challenge as regional allies lack adequate strategic unity.…
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Guns and Gold: Kurdish and West Papuan Persecution and Western Indifference
Though they are located on opposite ends of Asia, thousands of miles apart, the Kurds and West Papuans share a similar history. Both stateless nations, the Kurds and West Papuans…
India’s War Against Naxalism: The Need for a New Counterinsurgency
On a balmy 82-degree day in Narayanpur, a district nestled within the predominantly rural state of Chhattisgarh, belligerents in a protracted war orchestrated an attack. Maoist Naxalites, members of a…
All Eyes on Chile: Why the Chilean people voted to rewrite their constitution and what it means for Latin America
In Chile’s capital city of Santiago, what began as a single-issue protest blossomed into a national reckoning in October 2019. The metro fare increased by thirty pesos, sparking a massive…
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