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January 26, 2022

South Korea
What Does Korea’s 2022 Presidential Election Mean for its Democracy?

The ongoing South Korean presidential race holds significant sociopolitical implications for the future of democracy as democratic backsliding has now become an undeniable reality in South Korea. 

Candidates Lee jae-myung and Yoon Seok-youl shake hands

December 29, 2020

2020 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2020

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen attends a memorial service for late Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui at a chapel of Aletheia University in New Taipei City, Taiwan September 19, 2020.

August 25, 2020

Nigeria
Niger Attack Demonstrates Islamic State in West Africa’s Growing Reach

The area between Niamey, Niger and Niger State, Nigeria will not be spared from jihadist groups’ attacks any longer and ISWA’s two branches, Shekau’s faction, and Ansaru will all be competing for recruits in the same areas.

Six Nigerian soldiers, in an armored truck, hold up a flag seized from Boko Haram. The flag is black, with a white circle in the middle with black Arabic writing.

April 23, 2020

South Korea
South Korea: How History Informed Battle With Covid-19

The 2014 Sewol ferry disaster and 2015 MERS both shaped the current administration’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

A woman wearing a face mask in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past a voter at a polling booth in Seoul, South Korea, on April 15, 2020.

April 25, 2022

Cybersecurity
The Perils and Promise of America’s Older Cyber Regulatory Regime

Outdated digital policy in the United States has long been cited as a point of failure. Hacking laws need updating, but broad protections and better implementation of the law can improve U.S. cyberse…

Missouri Governor Mike Parson and President Donald Trump speak on a tarmac with Secret Service agents standing in the background.