Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international affairs quarterly and blogs at In the Human Interest.
In Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, wearing a colourful headscarf has become an act of defiance. Under Taliban rule, women are not merely being denied education, employment and freedom of movement; even
An armed rubber duck has become the unlikely centre of Germany’s latest debate over military expansion, recruitment and the normalisation of military culture. The miniature toy, dressed in a Bundeswehr uniform and carrying an assault rifle, sold out within hours
Michel Foucault died in 1984, but his intellectual influence continues to shape debates about power, surveillance, identity and political resistance. Four decades after his
Russia’s war against Ukraine has always extended beyond the question of territorial control. For Vladimir Putin, the conflict is part of a much larger
Understanding the MOU Most of the critical commentary on the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran centers on the specific commitments each side is supposed to have made and intends
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