As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, debate over the pandemic’s effects on the world order have started to take shape. Will the spread of the…
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As the number of confirmed coronavirus COVID-19 cases worldwide surges past the one million mark, containing the pandemic has overshadowed most other issues in both…
In my previous blogpost, I explained what is development-envy and its role in inspiring Acehnese to engage in a separatist conflict. Here, I demonstrate how…
In my previous blogpost, I explained why it is not true that economic development can prevent conflict. In this blogpost, I show how development-envy can,…
In response to reduced demand for oil due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proposed capping production among member…
In the post-Cold War era, there has been a plethora of liberal interventions to ameliorate rising civil conflict, including peacekeeping, regime change, human rights shaming,…
With the 2020 presidential election cycle in the United States underway, even the media in the Rising Powers cannot ignore the pageantry of the Democratic…
On February 24-25th, US President Donald Trump made his first visit to India, where he was welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and an…
An outbreak of novel coronavirus, now classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as COVID-19, began in Hubei Province in China late last year and…
Tsai Ing-wen’s return to power last month means that her flagship New Southbound Policy (NSP) is here to stay. President Tsai’s long-term vision to integrate…
Officials from governments around the world, business leaders, environmental activists, and social media influencers converged in Davos, Switzerland for the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual…
The New Year began with an attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad on New Year’s Eve by protestors opposing US airstrikes against an…
The year 2019 was a tumultuous one for the Rising Powers. China and the United States waged a war of words and economics as trade…
November 13-14, 2019, heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa gathered in Brasilia for the Eleventh BRICS Summit and the close…
On November 4, 2019, at the 35th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, representatives from the ten members of ASEAN (Brunei,…
