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Sudan: Theatre Where Many, Competing Interests Meet and Clash
After 18 months of siege marked by starvation, targeted killings, and sexual violence, El Fasher –...
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Bridging Land and Sea: Rethinking Security in the Red Sea Arena
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ASEAN Summit 2025: Navigating Great-Power Rivalry in Kuala Lumpur
From October 25 to 28, the ASEAN 47th Summit in Kuala Lumpur became the world’s most important diplomatic...
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Funding Gaps and Service Cuts: Reimagining Public Transit for an Equitable Future
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A Novel Approach to Mitigate the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: The OCRM Model

January 4, 2022 No Comments

 Download PDF Tens of thousands of people in the United States lose their lives each year to drug overdose, and the numbers continue to mount.

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The Summit for Democracy as a Platform to Promote the Mendez Principles

December 6, 2021 No Comments

The Summit for Democracy will be held this week and “bring together leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector.” Being the first of its kind and held at a time when human rights violations and democratic backsliding have peaked globally, the summit could be an invaluable opportunity for the Biden administration to raise awareness of and find solutions to the burning human-rights issues of  the day.

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Political Astroturfing in Twitterscape: The Role of Troll Armies in Turkey’s Democratic Backsliding

July 28, 2021 No Comments

Disinformation campaigns on social media are particularly detrimental to the healthy functioning of a democracy, given the increasingly central role of social media in political communication[1]. A growing number of governments have been deploying disinformation campaigns on social media for the manipulation of public opinion and agenda-setting, two practices that hamper the proper functioning of a democracy.

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