By Hailey Renick When asked to name a woman currently serving as a head of state, the majority of students interviewed could not do so, reflecting how deeply gender disparities persist in global politics. Over the past year, the number of women in government positions has decreased, further inhibiting global progress toward gender equality.1 What remains is a political landscape dominated by “strongman” leaders who … Continue reading Gender in Political Leadership
By Emily Tran Kelly M. Greenhill is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, Director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program, and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In her book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy, Greenhill delivers a groundbreaking and … Continue reading Book Review: Migration as a Political Tool
By Evelyn Bertolini In the midst of today’s increasingly turbulent international political climate, the UN and other global powers have failed to recognize human rights violations they consider less imperative to immediate international order. Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, an armed conflict between English-speaking separatists and the Cameroonian government, is a product of colonialism that has been worsened by international neglect. The conflict, based in deep interlinguistic … Continue reading Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: Colonial Legacies and International Ignorance
By Giullia Caico and Anjali Mishra Continue reading The Rise in Militarization Among Non-Traditional Nations: Spotlighting Hidden Shifts in the Global Security Landscape
By Josh Litvak Almost a century ago, Erwin Schrödinger proposed his “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment to demonstrate the absurdity of measuring quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level. In this hypothetical, a cat exists in a superposition of being both dead and alive until observed, when its state is confirmed. This idea—that a particle can exist in multiple states at once until measured—helps form the foundation … Continue reading The Race for Quantum Computing
By Anna Bader For the greater part of China’s rise as a global superpower, U.S. domestic policy makers have agonized over Chinese access to Americans’ information. The real question, however, is what information Silicon Valley has willingly given away. From the newest NVIDIA AI chip to IBM’s I2 surveillance and analysis software, it’s clear that Capitol Hill is underestimating the extent of these conspiracies. The … Continue reading “Surveillance superpowers”: the push and pull of American-Chinese cyber relations
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