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Student-written analysis and reporting on international affairs.
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, United States Delta Force operators breached a fortified compound in Caracas, Venezuela, extracted sitting President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at gunpoint, and t…
Angela Lo '27·April 1, 2026
In September and October 2025, Morocco witnessed the largest youth-led demonstrations since 2011. Thousands of young Moroccans, mobilized primarily through the Gen Z 212 network, filled the streets of Agadir, Rabat, C…
Connor Hwang '26·January 15, 2026
In September 2025, Nepal imposed a sweeping deactivation of twenty-six major social media platforms–including WhatsApp, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn–after claiming the companies failed to comply with …
Angela Lo '27·December 20, 2025
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Legitimate Investments or Debt-trap Diplomacy?
Yvonne Chen '27·April 3, 2026
The international community often speaks of ‘never again.’ Yet in 2026, the silence surrounding Sudan is deafening. While the world’s cameras remain fixed on the Middle East and the Levant, a country of 48 million peo…
Tarini Jalagam '29·June 1, 2026
The Geopolitics Behind China’s Sanctions on Hanwha In October 2025, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced sanctions on five subsidiaries of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, citing their alleged participation in a U.S. inv…
Andrew Zhang '26·January 3, 2026
Across the world, refugee protection continues to divide along moral, cultural, and racial lines. Although international law defines refugees through objective conditions of danger and persecution, host states rarely …
Ethan Lee '27·December 18, 2025
