By Dan Kent | December 12, 2022 With the release of an updated strategy on international education and engagement by the US Department of Education, the US government has acknowledged the importance of education as a vehicle for advancing its international interests. Specifically, the US higher education sector has long […]
by Kathleen Taylor China’s interest in Afghanistan can be defined by its desire to supplant the United States as the preeminent power in Asia and ultimately prove itself to be an undisputed global power. Photo: CCTV News China’s delayed interest in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon that began […]
The School of International Service Building at American University, Washington, D.C. by Jeremy Taylor In 2009, President Obama outlined a vision of sending 100,000 Americans to China for study abroad programs by 2014. This vision would require a robust public-private exchange between the United States and Chinese governments, […]
by Elodie Sellier As emerging economies continue growing at remarkable rates—much faster than their industrialized counterparts—the traditional “North-South” dichotomy is becoming obsolete. As a result, the patterns of development cooperation, once dominated by the industrialized countries, are shifting toward new aid models. In July 2014, the United Nations Open […]
by Michelle Bovée In the eyes of the West, Africa is in many ways still the Dark Continent, full of mystery and vast, unexplored territory. As Jon Stewart deftly pointed out in a sketch with Senior International Correspondent Trevor Noah, popular perception of Africa is often warped, with […]
by Sara Westfall While most of the world has been focused on conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, a competition has been quietly brewing in the far north. Just this past December, Denmark made a claim on territory in the Arctic. Before that, in 2007, a […]
by Enea Gjoza For years the United States has been at a loss on how to effectively deal with North Korea, a pariah “black hole” for U.S. intelligence. Although crippled by economic malfunction and a chronic inability to feed its people, the North Korean state has been able […]
by Kathleen Taylor In their Foreign Affairs article “Drop Your Weapons,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan investigate the “recent surge of nonviolent resistance movements” over the past three years. They found that “campaigns of nonviolent resistance against authoritarian regimes were twice as likely to succeed as violent movements” […]
by Michelle Bovee Early in November, for a few crisp fall days, Beijing’s normally smog-filled atmosphere miraculously lightened. The dense pollution clouds melted, the sun shone through, and the sky was clean and blue. This is, anyway, the illusion that the Chinese government tried to create for the […]
by Paula Iwaniuk After dragging their feet for the best part of a year, EU countries recently agreed on a 2030 climate and energy framework. This move forward has the potential to diminish the effects of global warming and climate change, but will other countries buy into it?
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