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Sanction Sorrows
By Joseph Haberman “We hope that our partners will be wise enough to see the recklessness of their attempts to blackmail Russia.” Last October, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin delivered...
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Coffee, Dates, and Cosmopolitanism in Modern Oman
Revelatory reflections on the people and places of Oman By Rosa Shapiro-Thompson Welcome ust days after Eid-al-Fitr, the celebratory end of Ramadan, I arrived in the small, sleepy town of Manah, Oman....
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Confusion and Delay
The crisis of Lima’s transportation system, and what’s being done to mitigate it. By Andrew Sandweiss “It’s chaos.” Mr. Araya took a sip of his coffee. His wife, Paola, nodded in agreement. To the...
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Putting out the Fire: Samsung’s Future After the Galaxy Note 7 Crisis
By Pranam Dey ransitions are always hard, but some are harder than others. For Lee Jae-yong, Vice-Chairman of Samsung Electronics, the continuing catastrophe of exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphones has...
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Developing Sustainable Tourism in the land of fire and ice
By Olivia Burton n 2010, news footage of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano expelling plumes of black smoke and ash against the clear blue Icelandic sky captivated viewers around the world. At night,...
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Is the referendum the right solution? By Ramiz Colak Crowds are crying, “Let the growth continue!” while they gather in the rally area. The streets are decorated with pictures of President Recep Tayyip...
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Through Apo’s Eyes
An examination of state-planned urbanization in China By Jinchen Zou spent a significant part of my early childhood with my grandparents in their house in the Chinese countryside. Life in the...
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Chinese Illegal Mining in Ghana By Nicolas Jimenez ur Jeep first pulls up at an open hole, the size of a grave, where around twenty Ghanaian women and men sift through the grey minerals and rocks using...
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In Ghana, Peacebuilding as Safeguard and Foundation By Henry Robinson walk through Accra’s eerily silent International Trade Fair Center, wondering if I’ve come to the right place. The walled, open-air...
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Mining and the social politics that shape the Peruvian landscape By Jackie Salzinger magine you are walking across land that you own. Perhaps you are a farmer, and perhaps this land has been in your...
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