The number of repatriated North Korean refugees has grown since China increased its border surveillance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to reports from various human rights groups, ...

First wave: began with increased prescribing of opioids in the 1990s Second wave: began in 2010, with rapid increases in overdose deaths involving heroin Third wave: began in 2013, with considerable ...

The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act this July, leading many to discover this organization for the first time.

In the last decade, the global count of forcibly displaced persons has doubled – from 59 million people in 2014 to over 122 million people in 2024. While most of the world’s displaced people live with ...

On October 30, 2024 President Claudia Sheinbaum signed the secondary laws regarding energy to strengthen Pemex and Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), as strategic public companies for national ...

The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe’s capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe’s relations ...

Religion has been a factor in violent conflict for thousands of years. Only recently has it been viewed as an instrument of peace, too. There are various cases in Africa where religion has been used ...

Greenland has announced its new coalition government, and it indicates that a cautious approach towards independence is the agreed policy. In February, then-Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Bourup ...

As the US, Russia and China engage in a highly visible competition in developing advanced weapons systems, behind the scenes another contest is quietly taking place: the race to export civil nuclear ...

Violette Khairallah outlines the progress, challenges, and steps to be taken for women in Lebanon face to achieve equitable political representation. The only way forward to increase women’s ...