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Massive protests have paralyzed Hong Kong, and resolution could be tested as the summer comes to a close and China ponders how to respond and exercise control. The protests began with one demand, withdrawing an extradition bill that would allow Hong Kong people to be sent to China for trials. The...

India, like many other nations, faces numerous foreign policy challenges as well as doubts about a dependable partnership with the United States. Under the Trump administration, the United States has targeted numerous countries on trade imbalances and in June announced revocation of India’s special...

Robert Mueller testified before two congressional committees about the nearly two-year investigation he led on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Mueller was an unwilling player in partisan drama, and his responses did not stray far from the text of his 448-page report...

Acceptance of the LGBT community that encompasses lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered people and queer expanded quickly during this century. But acceptance is not universal, and regional variance on policies and rights is stark. “Broad protections against discrimination based on sexual...

Fifty years ago, the world paused to gaze at transmissions of a feat that had once seemed unthinkable. Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the surface of the Moon, meeting a goal set a decade earlier by US President John F. Kennedy. The astronaut’s first words on the Moon were eloquent...

A feminist movement is expanding globally with collective actions like #MeToo and #TimesUp, yet predictably runs into challenges in conservative authoritarian regimes. In Turkey, the women’s rights movement has roots in the 19th century, and legal reforms were achieved in the early part of this...

Western terms defining regions often stick despite the existence of more relevant, indigenous language. The label “Maritime Southeast Asia,” covering the area shared by Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, fails to take into account shared Austronesian language roots or history including the...

The first night of debate for the US 2020 presidential race featured for 10 Democratic candidates, and almost half the discussion covered topics related to foreign policy. Time constraints were tight, with total response time for each candidate ranging from about 5 to 11 minutes. Even so, for the...

With democracies abruptly reversing positions on trade or climate change, once trusted alliances seem temporary in nature. “The multilateral world order is slowly fading into the past with new alliances forming and established ones questioned by their founders,” observes Michal Romanowski. “The...