Kosovo faces a quandary, one in which the international community has happily involved itself. With the resulting instability comes diplomatic complications, questions of national identity, and the uncovering of boundless grief.
Saying Biafra deserves to be independent, or even saying the opposite, is a bit like saying that the world deserves to keep spinning: How do you even begin to justify why?
As Theresa May moved from being a discredited prime minister to an MP for Maidenhead, she has assumed a role which no prime minister since Edward Heath has ever taken — being the Tory rebel leader.
While the Olympic Games are a unique and powerful symbol of an increasingly interconnected world, the hurdles faced by host cities reflect the pressing challenges that accompany globalizing forces like the Olympics.
Africa's volatile and plateauing growth rates indicate that long-term economic development remains a distant aspiration. Such dismal trends beg the question: why has Africa fallen so far behind?
Belgium currently exists as a microcosm of the multicultural cooperative effort that is modern Europe. Like the broader EU, it faces the same rising tides of nationalism and populism. Will Belgium survive?
The impact of performative masculinity was at the forefront of controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when hypermasculine leadership made mask-wearing a partisan issue.
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, Latin America’s largest country had already been experiencing structural economic and social difficulties. Despite its...
Opposition came from within the government itself, especially through political competition at the municipal level and institutional blockage at the national level.
This is the metaphorical weight of cricket in India: a sport whose mythos transcends ethno-religious and caste-based fissures, and in which India’s current dominance constitutes pride and resistance in the face of cricket’s British-colonial roots. It is in cricket that the chimeric ideal of a united India inheres.
