A lot of Japan’s women-related issues cannot be solved by legal frameworks or systems alone; they need social and cultural reformation.
With the European Union struck by a number of issues, from increased Russian aggression to an ongoing migrant crisis to lingering economic woes, it seeks to expand membership in the Balkans and beyond. Michal Bokša argues that the same tactic which brought Central Europe into the EU in the 1990s will not have the same appeal in the Southeast.
Even as governments push to implement online authentication for digital transactions, AI threatens to convincingly play the part of a human online.
Nationalist leaders can close borders to migration and trade, but how does the 'America First' model fare against pandemic disease? Not well.
Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union might have political and economic interests in sustaining Greece’s fiscal weaknesses.
Two years in, there is little evidence to support most concerns that surrounded the Iran Deal – except one.
They are unlikely bedfellows: Sunni Islamists declaring a caliphate across the Middle East, ranchers attacking a federal wildlife refuge headquarters while refusing to pay taxes, and neo-Nazis peddling white nationalism and hatred of Jews to Twitter. But they have more in common than any of them would like to admit. It’s not just that they’re all extremists, advocating ideas and behaviors that challenge standard order and condone violence. Importantly, all of these groups and others have used social media to spread their brand across the globe and into our communities.
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