AI Cities and the Global South’s Surveillance Trap
For most of history, the state was powerful but partly blind. AI cities may end that blindness, creating a new political temptation: not the...
International Scrutiny, Domestic Politics, and the Debate Over Muslim Rights in India
A March 2026 report by the Panel of Independent International Experts (PIIE) has reignited debate over the condition of Muslim communities in the Indian...
Travel Is Not Freedom. It Is Politics
When the World Was Meant for Everyone
While we have 190+ countries in the world, South Asian countries are the ones that need to worry...
Education Cannot Stop at the Border: Protecting Children on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: Eladio Jiminez Made and Nicole Suarez Sabio*
Every day across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), many children cross borders, rivers, jungles and dangerous...
The Fantasy of Multilateralism: Resource Leverage in Times of Crisis
Every January, heads of state, finance ministers and choice executives - essentially a hand-picked bunch of individuals holding immense financial power - convene at...
Artificial Intelligence in the Interregnum: Technology and the Reconfiguration of Meaning
There are moments in history when civilizations continue to advance materially while progressively losing confidence in the values and structures that once gave direction...
UNPROFOR and the Declining Relevance of the UN
The April rejection of the United Nations draft proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, despite being backed by 112 member states, paints a...
Turning the Tide at the G7 – School Meals for a Hungry World
These are dark days for international development. The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their promise of a world free of extreme poverty...
Iran Demands Reparations and United States Troop Withdrawal in New Peace Proposal
Iran has publicly outlined key elements of its latest peace proposal to the United States, demanding reparations for war damage, the withdrawal of United...
The Aesthetics of Impunity: Legal Backsliding of Gender in Türkiye
In early 2026, the discovery of Durdona Khakimova and Ergashalieva Sayyora—two Uzbek women murdered and disposed of in trash containers in Istanbul—sent a chilling...