The Asian superpowers, China, Japan, and South Korea, have strengthened diplomatic ties in response to the Trump administration. Japan, specifically, hopes to create a stable relationship with both superpowers by securing economic ties with China and security ties with the United States.
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Read morePiracy was at its highest in early 2011, when Somali pirates held more than 30 ships and more than 100 hostages. In that year, the international community intervened with their respective navies.
Read moreWith Brussels being called the “hotbed” of European jihadism, more connections are being found between the city and the Paris attacks. Ali Oulkadi, a Belgian man, picked up Abdeslam after the attacks and brought him to the neighborhood of Schaerbeek, where the two of them and an unidentified individual visited a cafe.
Read moreISIS also differentiates from Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations in its strategies. Al-Qaeda’s objectives for their operations were mainly political targets in the western world. These targets were chosen to express Osama bin Laden’s disgust at the continued presence of Western powers in the Middle East following the invasion of Kuwait.
Read moreAccording to migration expert Shaina Aber, policy director for the National Advocacy Office of the Jesuit Conference of the U.S. and Canada, “There has always been a small but substantial number of ‘extraterritorial refugees’ from Africa and Asia making their way along Latin America’s established migrant trail. You can track the various refugee crises in the world by who starts showing up.”
Read moreIn Southeast Asia, the U.S. maintains a strong military presence to combat terrorist groups in the south of the Philippines, where 6,000 troops are stationed—twice as large as the deployment in Iraq, reports the Manila Times.
Read moreMany people came to the United States to find better opportunities or to seek refuge from repression in their home country. To turn away those who desperately need help because they fear being invaded by terrorists is not only unconscionable, but also goes against our values as a nation.
Read moreAlternatively, there is “Jihadophobia,” which is a specific fear of terror groups that manipulate the wording of the Quran to instill their destructive agendas. Hillary Clinton best exemplifies this group of thought, as she has taken to labelling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Daesh, as “radical jihadists” rather than radical Muslims.
Read moreBy Daniel Garay Web Editor Robert Serry, the School of Diplomacy’s recently named Sergio Vieira de Mello Visiting Chair in
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