While the Olympic Games are a unique and powerful symbol of an increasingly interconnected world, the hurdles faced by host cities reflect the pressing challenges that accompany globalizing forces like the Olympics.
Africa's volatile and plateauing growth rates indicate that long-term economic development remains a distant aspiration. Such dismal trends beg the question: why has Africa fallen so far behind?
Belgium currently exists as a microcosm of the multicultural cooperative effort that is modern Europe. Like the broader EU, it faces the same rising tides of nationalism and populism. Will Belgium survive?
The impact of performative masculinity was at the forefront of controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when hypermasculine leadership made mask-wearing a partisan issue.
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, Latin America’s largest country had already been experiencing structural economic and social difficulties. Despite its...
Opposition came from within the government itself, especially through political competition at the municipal level and institutional blockage at the national level.
This is the metaphorical weight of cricket in India: a sport whose mythos transcends ethno-religious and caste-based fissures, and in which India’s current dominance constitutes pride and resistance in the face of cricket’s British-colonial roots. It is in cricket that the chimeric ideal of a united India inheres.
People do not wake up one day and spontaneously decide to butcher their neighbors. They are taught to fear. The Rwandan genocide did not start with slayings and the Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. Both events were preceded by a process of dehumanization in which marginalized groups were cast as enemies and outsiders.
