The Beginning of the End? “The Year of Elections” marked the eighth year since US President Donald Trump’s initial, ...

Alan Cai Alan is a staff writer for the HIR. He is interested in Great Power Competition, intrastate conflict, and client regimes. He is a sophomore studying Government and History, with a minor in ...

Madam Atifete Jahjaga served as Kosovo's fourth president from 2011 to 2016. She started her career in the military, attaining the rank of Major General of the Kosovo Police. Being just 35 years old ...

The potential for exploitation permits to be granted in the near future has come amidst struggles to develop a comprehensive legal framework among ISA members for deep-sea mining operations. Since ...

There are few experiences more gut-wrenching than having your home engulfed in conflict. The Tuareg people, a largely pastoral people who live in the western Sahara Desert, have felt this pain ...

Chris Cunneen is a Professor of Criminology at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney. He specializes in Aboriginal and indigenous issues, ...

As part of his Indo-Pacific strategy, President Donald Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act and the Taiwan Assurance Act in December 2020. The purpose of the acts became clear in January ...

Imagine this scenario: you learn that a young woman is missing in your city. The next day, someone finds her body on the side of the highway. She has been stabbed dozens of times and is now ...

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Both nations’ reluctance boils down to their dispute over a string of islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan’s ...

Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, provided 45 percent of EU gas imports before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As European countries seek to condemn Russia’s actions, the ...

Apart from Germany’s general reliance on Russian gas until the invasion of Ukraine, the country had notably departed from nuclear energy as part of its greater Energiewende, or energy transition. This ...

With its assertive foreign policy, China has been striving increasingly to become a maritime superpower to replace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region. It started with Beijing’s historical ...