A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the early hours of January 19, 2025, bringing a pause to the latest conflict in the Middle East. A fragile calm rests as the guns no longer fire, the...
Alícia Isasi, Managing Director
• December 5, 2024
On Thursday, November 14, 2024, Professor J Andrés Gannon appeared on the Vanderbilt Political Review Podcast to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the implications of a Trump presidency...
"There is no such thing as a pure, unambiguous history. In every struggle, there are competing narratives, and no one side holds all the truth." - Jon Meacham, American historian.
The Israel-Hamas war...
After two years of fighting, Russia’s recent offensive successes following months of stalemates forecast a dangerous future for Ukraine as Western military aid stalls. In 2024, Russia gained substantial...
On Jan. 28, Iran-backed militants killed three United States soldiers in Jordan by way of a drone attack. The U.S. government promised a harsh response, but Americans waited days before their military...
Switzerland, as we know it today, did not start out as a unified national state. Instead, it began as a collection of republics throughout the Alps working together to defend their ideals of democracy...
On September 30, 2023, the Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER) party surprised many by garnering more votes than expected in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections. They won the largest share of...
On July 26, 2023, Niger experienced its fifth coup since its independence from France in 1960. The country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by...
Censorship, the suppression of considerably ‘objectionable’ content, has taken significant precedence in Turkey after an attempted 2016 coup aimed to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration...
On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II passed away after a 70 year reign, the longest of any British or female monarch in history. Union flags were lowered across Britain as the nation entered a state...
In 2013, French troops entered Mali and have maintained a consistent presence in the nation ever since. The original intent of the operation was to challenge the attempted jihadist movement to control...
This December, Russia issued several security demands to American diplomats, calling on NATO to halt its eastward expansion of alliances, to remove troops from former Soviet territories, and end Western...
