On May 19, 2015, Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang announced a series of investment and trade deals with Brazil amounting to 50 billion dollars. These deals range from the financing of a Brazilian state-owned oil firm to investments in transportation infrastructure, ...
Though the incessant stream of Islamic State-related headlines have cemented a narrative of IS as the greatest threat to mankind, the numbers seem to belie the reality of our pervasive sense of alarm. In fact, the Assad Regime in Syria ...
This piece is the second installation of a two-part series on the Chinese One Belt, One Road strategy. To read the first installation, click here. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping first unveiled it in 2013, One Belt, One Road (OBOR) ...
This piece is the first installation of a two-part series on the Chinese One Belt, One Road strategy. To read the second installation, click here. When I arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, a landlocked, mountainous country in Central Asia and the smallest and ...
I received the email pictured above from a friend last year shortly after returning to the United States from Azerbaijan. He was alleging that my email account had been hacked into, and that the perpetrators were editing my emails before ...
Every year, numerous articles and books are written on the topic of development. These publications regularly focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region in the world, and they almost always describe development from a Western perspective, appealing to policy makers ...
Recently, the Huffington Post released a widely popular three minute compilation video of Donald Trump repeating the word China with varying degrees of contempt. As apparent in the video, candidate Trump has made attacking China a major plank in his ...
When former Glimpse from the Globe correspondent Sean McGuire explained the origins of the Greek debt crisis and its devastating humanitarian consequences in October, 2012, he reported that Greece’s suicide rate had almost doubled between 2009 and 2010. Today, the ...
Crimes against humanity. No three words pierce the international sphere so drastically, no charge is quite so damning, yet none is equally as ambiguous. In fact, the charge – because of its weight and because it is often levied against ...
A new wild west has been born. It’s wilder than before: wanted posters lack daunting portraits of purported criminals, the guns are bigger and absolutely silent, and the bullets are no longer bullets—they’re bits and bytes. The 21st century has ...