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December 30, 2015

Saudi Arabia
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2015

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

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May 22, 2015

North Korea
Human Rights Conditions of Overseas Laborers from North Korea

The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) has released a new report entitled Human Rights and North Korea’s Overseas Laborers: Dilemmas and Policy Challenges, by Yoon Yeosang and Lee S…

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December 30, 2014

Cybersecurity
The Top Five Cyber Policy Developments of 2014: A Year of Corporate Cyberattacks

Over the next few days, Net Politics will countdown the top five developments in cyber policy of 2014. Each policy event will have its own post, explaining what happened, what it all means, and its i…

People pose in front of a display showing the word 'cyber' in binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica on December 27, 2014.  (Dado Ruvic/Courtesy Reuters)

November 5, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Does “Africa” Exist?

Simon Kuper has published a thoughtful piece in the Financial Times that argues the word "Africa” has “lost what meaning it ever had and should be binned.” He argues that in 1969 (the year he was bor…

Men sing and dance as they celebrate referendum results in Abyei October 31, 2013.

June 14, 2013

Political Transitions
You Might Have Missed: Surveillance Programs, Intervention in Syria, and Chinese Foreign Policy

Alastair Iain Johnston, "How New and Assertive Is China’s New Assertiveness?" International Security 37, no. 4 (Spring 2013): 7–48. Why, then, does it matter whether PRC diplomacy as a whole in 2010…

U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper departs after a Senate briefing on national surveillance programs on June 13, 2013 (Ernst/Courtesy Reuters).