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Tag: Global

Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.

Mark Goodale

A ‘dangerous’ populist will likely be elected president this weekend—and he may be just what the country needs.

David R. K. Adler

Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.

Engin Önder

America loves pitting Black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

Robin D. G. Kelley

From scrapbooks to family albums, a new book presents their visual testimonies from Kashmir.

Suchitra Vijayan

After Turkey's failed 2016 coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.

Umar Farooq
Schools in Nepal increasingly use English as the language of instruction. But in the name of preparing them for a globalized world, non-mother-tongue education often fails the students it aims to help.
Eleanor Hildebrandt

Two British reports deliver a damning and decisive verdict on the politics of interventionism.

Alex de Waal
Malta, Portugal, and Spain offer quick routes to passports for global elite willing to pay. This raises fundamental questions about the meaning and value of citizenship.
Max Holleran

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy. 

Jordan Michael Smith

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

Matthew Karp

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

Rafia Zakaria

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

Tariq Mir

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

Jo Guldi

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

Lauren Carasik

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

Andrea Mammone

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

Simon Waxman

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Lauren Carasik

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

Robert L. Kehoe III

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

Alex de Waal

The country needs a political rebirth.

Mahmood Mamdani

The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

Candice Delmas

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