News: Governance
Belarus’s fight for democratic freedom: Solidarity over geopolitics
September 23, 2020More than a month has passed since the brazenly falsified official results of the August 9 presidential election in Belarus showed incumbent president Aliaksandr Lukashenka […]
“Seeing-as”
July 10, 2020An outcry In a particularly disturbing scene in J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, the protagonist defends four prisoners who are about to be […]
Toward a new internationalism
May 4, 2020As we continue our isolation at home, haunted by messages of vulnerability and gloom, we ask ourselves: How will this end? What will the future […]
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Coronavirus may have emptied Hong Kong’s streets, but the pro-democracy protests continue
April 23, 2020Maggie Shum, research associate at the Keough School of Global Affairs, explores how the Hong Kong protest movement is adapting during the coronavirus pandemic in […]
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Letter from Germany: A democracy hunkers down
March 23, 2020William Collins Donahue, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Initiative for Global Europe at the Keough School of […]
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Taiwan’s Tsai wins landslide in stinging result for China
January 11, 2020Joshua Eisenman, associate professor of global affairs, considered China’s response to the Taiwanese election results, in a France24 article. “Will the hardline position towards Tsai… be […]