BY EVA BUSZA1 In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of a core group of states from the Global South which are on track to become the future center of global economic dynamism and power: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).2 Today, these countries account for approximately 40 per cent of the [...]
BY GITANJALI GUTIERREZ In the wake of September 11, 2001, the United States parted from its traditional adherence to fundamental legal principles, including domestic and international prohibitions against torture, kidnapping, disappearances, and arbitrary detention without trial. Legal memorandum from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and other government documents disclosed through the Freedom [...]
BY LINDSAY IRVINE History, though sometimes preserved in stones, is not static. History is a living organism that changes as we understand and incorporate traumatic events into our lives and our world. The human imagination has commemorated these events in numerous ways across countless generations, but most have been lost in the sands of time. [...]
BY MARC GOPIN There has been so much talk in recent years about radical religion, but so little talk of its roots often in state-based political calculus. From Iran’s strategic interests in affecting the Middle East through terrorist clients like Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Pakistan’s years of support for the Taliban and violent extremists in [...]