The Referendum At present, the lower and the upper chambers of Parliament have identical powers. No bill becomes law until they can agree on a common text. The reform attempted to change the constitution by reducing the powers of the ...
INTRODUCTION Nearly ten years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement officially ended the bloody Sudanese Civil War, South Sudan is again on the brink of disaster. Months of negotiation following a tenuous peace deal between President Salva Kiir and former Vice ...
China’s known across the world for its unfortunate repression of the Tibetan and Uyghur peoples’ right to self-determination. Tibet and Xinjiang (home to China’s Uyghurs, an Islamic, Turkic ethnic group) are both restive regions that capture the world’s attention from ...
One morning in 2010, foreign governments and American officials around the world were faced with the possibility of a multipronged scandal. Each of the 251,287 US diplomatic cables leaked by Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange potentially held an ...
On October 1 of this year China celebrated a “historic milestone” as the International Monetary Fund added the renminbi (RMB) to its elite basket of reserve currencies, joining the dollar, the pound, the euro and the yen. This codification of ...
Caroline Chen on Fiscal Policy The overriding economic concern is whether or not Trump will truly put the money where his mouth is. Much of his bellicose, protectionist campaign rhetoric defied the fundamentals of American fiscal policy; to advocate for ...
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of many books on foreign affairs including In Europe’s Shadow, Asia’s Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. His writing is eclectic and lucid; an essential voice in ...
Brazil is in the third year of its worst recession ever. Three years after a severe financial crisis, the political and economic future of the former Latin American powerhouse looks highly uncertain. There are signs of tentative recovery, but underlying ...
If history has taught us anything beyond that conflict is inevitable, it’s that wars often prove self-correcting. In other words, a particular war can be so devastating that the pendulum then necessarily swings in the direction of peace and non-intervention. ...
2008: Financial Armageddon For years, America’s financial sector was thriving. Low interest rates and stable growth had many Americans feeling optimistic about the state of the economy. Before 2008, deregulation allowed for investment banks to make risky investments with stockholder ...