El Salvador’s government under the leadership of Nayib Bukele has engaged in some of the most authoritarian measures since the civil war, including the sabotage of an ongoing investigation into the 1981 El Mozote Massacre. The U.S. government has played an equally damaging role in preventing accountability and justice for the victim’s families.

As foreign governments consider releasing centralized digital currencies, the US dollar faces challenges to its global primacy.

Set against a backdrop of heightening regional tensions with significant global repercussions, the relationship between South Korea and Japan continues to deteriorate. The United States needs to take a more active role in the relationship, mediate a resolution, and, by extension, promote multilateral solutions to counteract China’s increasing aggression.

South Korea should include the release of its six illegally detained citizens in North Korea in its international agenda by using a naming and shaming strategy.

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan signifies an important shift in great power competition, with China poised to fill the power vacuum and the U.S. refocused.

The South Korean government’s obstinate will to play around with social distancing measures just does not seem productive anymore. Only now, South Korea is talking about “With Corona,” how South Korea would coexist with COVID-19.

Humanitarian action is supposed to help the people in the world who need it most, but what happens when the people tasked with helping instead cause even more harm? It is time to implement zero-tolerance policies towards sexual exploitation and abuse in the humanitarian aid sector.

This article aims to analyze the intervention and abandonment of Afghanistan by U.S. forces while assessing new developments following the collapse of the government. The author makes policy recommendations for the international and U.S. response to the conflict.

Russian media content analysis often focuses on native internet sources such as VK and Yandex. Yet for activists with an eye towards Western audiences, usage of a non-indigenous platform - YouTube - is gaining prominence.

From European colonialism to U.S. imperialism, foreign powers have only ever been interested in securing their own foreign policy interests, primarily based on the extraction of wealth from the Haitian people.

Minimal and decontextualized coverage of Haitian protests prior to the assassination of Haitian president and close U.S. ally Jovenel Moïse helped safeguard his PHTK party’s catastrophic neoliberal agenda. Since Moïse’s assassination, a media flood on Haiti’s political crisis is setting the stage for further foreign intervention.

This article seeks to dissect the root of the recent civil unrest in South Africa following the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma, while examining the Zuma presidency to uncover where the widening cracks lie within the fractious African National Congress. The author argues that while some of those who participated in the violence may be frustrated with the lack of economic opportunities and failure of the ANC to follow through with its campaign promises, this insurrection was ultimately an attempt by pro-Zuma supporters to manipulate public discord for their own political purpose.

South Korea, Japan, and the United States should know that time and patience are of the essence when mending the severed relation between South Korea and Japan

The Najaf clerical establishment’s influence on Iraq’s political development is undeniable, requiring the United States to consider how Najaf perceives its actions.

Therefore, American foreign policy vis-à-vis Iraq should eschew militarization and instead focus on building Iraq’s governance capacity, a policy palatable to Iraq’s clerical establishment.

If U.S. counterinsurgency operations want to win the hearts and minds of the entire population, they should enhance gender-sensitivity by participating in the transformation of harmful gender roles and unequal power relations.

Under the control of numerous Colombian presidents, the Colombian military has taken advantage of billions of dollars in U.S. military funding to engage in systematic suppression of grassroots social movements

If President Biden wants to put an end to the stalled relation with North Korea, he should refrain from sending mixed messages like his predecessors.

South Korea has been at the forefront of tracking down COVID-19 confirmed cases and caring for physical health, yet woefully lags in caring for mental health

The Suez bottleneck demonstrated global fragility. America must learn and strengthen alternative routes, while supporting democratic values.

Clerical rule in Iran faces insurmountable challenges in sustaining its legitimacy and will find itself at a critical juncture with the inevitable death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The United States should acknowledge and act on this development to weaken the Islamic Republic’s model of clerical politics.