Many South Koreans consider a trip to the Dodko Islands a civic duty. Photographs by Tim Franco ByAlexandra Genova Published November 14, 2018 The Dokdo Islands are the center of a diplomatic dispute between South Korea and Japan that goes back more than 300 years./Photograph by Tim Franco Though the Dokdo—meaning […]
June 22, 2021 By Sam Ratner A view of a steel wall at Evros river, near the village of Poros, at the Greek-Turkish border, Greece, Friday, May 21, 2021. Credit: Giannis Papanikos/AP What actually constitutes the state? When we say that a state has done something — or even that a state […]
JUNE 22, 2021 Animals and humans are increasingly coming into close contact, as when an elephant burst into a house in Thailand. The pandemic and climate change is testing as never before the delicate balance of human co-habitation with the natural world. As an Australian prison is evacuated after it was […]
By GNA June 10, 2021 The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has launched a research report on violent extremism in ten border regions of Ghana which identifies youth unemployment as a risk to national security. The research, titled: Risk or threat Analysis of Violent Extremism in Ten Border Regions of […]
By Mark Rasch June 10, 2021 With the weather getting warmer, and vaccinations against COVID-19 increasing, we are likely to see an increase in travel — including international business travel. But for individuals and companies seeking to protect their data privacy, a recent ruling by the United States Court of Appeals […]
By Bruno Tertrais World Politics Review, June 22, 2021 A new border wall stretches along the landscape near Sasabe, Arizona, May 19, 2021 (AP photo by Ross D. Franklin). Back in 1990, when the Soviet bloc was crumbling into new nations, Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, had […]
By Editor June 22, 2021 The issue of Constituency delimitation is a hot topic of discussion for democracy advocates who believe in the principle of representative democracy and the guarding of it by the number of seats and votes allocated to each community or region through their members of parliament who […]
by Explica .co June 21, 2021 Recently it became known that scientists are able to trace the boundary of the solar system heliosphere. This is great news, as it provides insight into the forces that sculpt the bubble of our solar system from the outside. The aforementioned is important, because astronomers have […]
New Era, 2021-06-18 By Staff Reporter We wish to respond on the issue relating to the Namibia-Botswana Border Treaty as follows: The Mafwe and the Mayeyi traditional authorities in the Zambezi region wrote in The Namibian dated 17 May 2021 showing their concerns about the border treaty of 2018 between Namibia […]
BY CALEB WEISS June 16, 2021 Map of jihadist attacks inside Ivory Coast since 2016. Map made by Caleb Weiss for FDD’s Long War Journal. Since late March of this year, northern Ivory Coast has been subject to a substantial increase in jihadist attacks. This includes the country’s first known instances of […]