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With Swiss elections on the horizon, the campaign of the country’s strongest party, the Swiss People’s Party, or SVP, has turned alarmingly xenophobic. The SVP campaign has featured posters, films and speeches attesting to its staunch stance against the immigrant population. SVP offers a vision of foreigners as the “hell” that invades “heavenly” Switzerland, and the party supports the deportation...

The United Nations' membership and mission has grown significantly in the six decades since its founding. Ayman El-Amir, a former director of UN Radio and Television, suggests that a proliferation of issues and the bureaucracy designed to address them have made the organization incapable of efficiently tackling the world's major problems. The stalling of reform initiatives begun in 1997...

Recent military exercises by the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, particularly Russia and China, have prompted speculation about an emerging military alliance between the two Asian powers, standing in opposition to the United States. However, Yu Bin, senior fellow for the Shanghai Institute of American Studies and political science professor at Wittenberg University, argues that...