Extractive industries, e.g., copper, gold, oil, and natural gas, have grown rapidly in many developing countries. Historical data on…
Iraq holds 143 billion barrels and 8.7 percent of world oil reserves. 45 billion barrels are located in the Kurdistan region. In…
In contrast to conventional understandings of genocide as systematic, planned, and ideologically-driven mass killing, Raphael Lemkin…
[T]he reactions (by the audience) to a terrorist event are far more important for understanding the consequences of a terrorist attack…
Problems of global governance push us to re-examine the mechanisms of global governance, as well as to reflect on the question of who…
The revolution in Russia, despite its huge costs and sacrifices, has moved the social and political development of the whole world far…
Hong Kong was a city largely made up of migrants and refugees who moved to and through there during the second half of the 20th…
The digital global is virtual, extremely fast, operates remotely, and might be automated—so access to networks and their control is…
What we need is a new global emancipatory narrative that is global, green, socially just, and realistic, another way of seeing the…
Area specialists have increasingly found globalization a helpful framework for understanding the societies and cultures they study.…
Hong Kong has been a city affording liberty but not democracy. There is a vigorous rule of law in place, and the people in general…
The most fundamental social dynamic governing most relationships, and the DNA for peacefulness, is the norm of reciprocity. It has…
