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'Silent Victim'? Interrogating the Ecological Implications of War
By Robert Mizo | 18 December, 2025
Rarely do analyses on wars consider the environment; it is presumed to be a ‘silent victim’, an unavoidable collateral of the human condition that is essentially conflictual.
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Seeking Peace For Kanaky Amid Deepening Injustices and Insecurities
By Anna Naupa | 17 December, 2025
The 2025 Pacific Peoples’ Mission to New Caledonia reveals deepening injustices and insecurities in Kanaky New Caledonia.
The Danger of a Transactional Worldview
By Jordan Ryan | 11 December, 2025
On December 4, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy, the document articulating America's approach to global security.
When Algorithms Rewrite History: Governing the Digital Erosion of Democratic Memory
By Jordan Ryan | 06 December, 2025
As Spain marked the fiftieth anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death in November 2025, the country’s reckoning with its past collided with social media platforms amplifying distorted versions of the dictatorship to millions of young Spaniards.
Japan Stumbles: The Taiwan Fiasco
By Masaru Tamamoto | 05 December, 2025
It was seemingly an unprepared remark and quite unnecessary. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that Japan will defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to reunify China by force.
Is Europe Dreaming of Colonial Era Dominance?
By Ramesh Thakur | 04 December, 2025
In an extraordinary act of foreign interference in a friendly country’s bilateral relations with a third country, the French, German and British envoys published an op-ed in The Times of India on Monday that was highly critical of India’s continued close relations with Russia.
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