China’s Plans for Latin America: An Even Keel in Turbulent Waters
Photo: World Leaders at the 2016 APEC Summit, 20 November 2016. APEC Peru 2016, license: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 If the Chinese get one thing...
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Puerto Rico: Moving Beyond PROMESA
Photo: Author; San Juan, Puerto Rico On June 30, 2016, in the midst of a summer rocked by Brexit, terrorism, and an acrimonious...
Transcending Bias in the US Trafficking in Persons Report
Photo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Launch Ceremony at the U.S....
Global Climate Change: The Next Humanitarian Crisis
Photo: Tarawa, Kiribati; original by Government of Kiribati, retrieved through Wikimedia, licensed through CC by 3.0. Climate change is a...
Global Climate Change: Scientific Consensus, Political Challenge
Image: Keeling Curve showing change in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over time.. Please refer to article for link to curve...
South China Sea Arbitration: Philippines v. China
Photo: USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea July 5, 2016. US Navy, CC BY 2.0 The South China Sea case (Philippines v. China) has...
From the Ivory Tower to the Halls of Power - Recasting Relevance in International Relations
Are rigorous political science methods driving the discipline to policy irrelevance in international relations? Michael Desch’s recent...
World Humanitarian Summit and the Crisis of Humanitarianism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the World Humanitarian Summit, May 23, 2016. Original,...
Securitizing Climate Change for Better Governance
The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks report produced a risk interconnection map that charts out an increasingly integrated and...
Chinese Nationalism - Constructive or Destructive?
When societies urbanize and industrialize rapidly, it is common for feelings of nationalism to surge among the citizenry in general, and...
FPInsights: AIIB Banks on Experience and Innovation
Photo: http://www.aiib.org/ There is no mistaking which country is the driving force behind the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...
Taking On the Zika Challenge
Photo: Author, road crossing jungles through central Uganda, 2011. The Zika virus has been grabbing headlines for nearly a year now with...
The UAE and Asia’s Middle Class
This post was originally posted in The New Silk Road Monitor here. This is an important piece on the CNN site penned by an influential...
Xi's January of Discontents
Photo: EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS It’s only a few weeks into 2016, but Chinese president Xi Jinping must already feel nostalgia for the year...
Exporting the Chinese Model
This article was originally published in Project Syndicate on January 12, 2016. Read the original here. STANFORD – As 2016 begins, an...
How to Help the Syrians Who Want to Return Home
A Syrian refugee in Lesbos, Greece. CreditYannis Behrakis/Reuters This article was originally published on January 12, 2016 in the...
China struggles to deal with its own inconsistencies
More than at any time in the history of modern China, 2016 will be a pivotal year for the economy. Indeed, the odds are not small that...
The United Arab Emirates, China, and the new “Triple-South”
As South-South trade and investment ties expand rapidly, altering the geo-commercial and geo-political map of the world, one relationship...
New Winds of Economic Change in Saudi Arabia: A Riyadh Dispatch
The Kingdom Ballroom at the Four Seasons hotel in Riyadh is home to some of the Saudi capital’s most elite weddings, top-notch corporate...
Regulate gene-editing — now: This technology strikes at the core of what it means to be human
This article originally appeared in the NY Daily News on December 4, 2015. View it here. The news that Chinese researchers recently...
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