The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has long been a battleground for competing rebel factions, with women bearing the brunt of the violence. The recent attack on Munzenze prison in Goma on February 5, 2025, stands as a grim…
Read More Defending the Defenseless: Protecting Women in the DRC Amid Rising Rebel Violence
In rural Nepal, thousands of boys and young men undergo rigorous military training. They aspire to become Gurkhas, some of the most feared and respected soldiers in the world, whose military prowess is so highly regarded that foreign militaries and…
Read More Future of the Gurkhas and the India-Nepal Relationship
Over the past couple of weeks, mass disarray has erupted in vulnerable communities across the world with the dismantling of USAID, leaving them in dire conditions and in an optimal environment for terrorism to bloom. As the Trump organization ends…
Read More If the U.S. Department of State Wants to Counter Terrorism, It Shouldn’t Get Rid of USAID
North Korea and Russia displayed a positive political relationship during the Cold War, beginning in the later half of the 1900s. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea seems to have renewed its relationship with Russia through political support…
Pressure mounts on Western Europe to export much-needed tanks to Ukraine.
Four decades after the Falklands War, Beijing stokes tension with the U.K. by supporting Argentina’s claim to the territory.
The already-strained political system looks close to collapsing under pressure from Serb leaders.
A new submarine deal signals a strategic shift in the Indo-Pacific region.
Multinational security companies contribute to human rights challenges across the region.
The climate crisis is creating the conditions under which extremism and conflict thrive.
