Source: Panoramio Stories to Follow This Week UNICEF Reports 89 Boys Kidnapped in South Sudan by Armed Militants At least 89 boys, some as young…
Posts published in February 2015
[Originally posted here] Because of manpower shortages, the Syrian conflict has given rise to yet another distressing phenomenon: child soldiers. Although all factions in the…
[Originally posted here] Dawood Ibrahim is perhaps the most notorious “underworld don” in South Asia, involved in everything from supporting terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and…
[Originally posted here] There is a common theme among leaders of oppressive regimes around the world — a rhetorical assertion that the United States is…
Monday Briefing | February 16, 2015 Stories To Follow Epidemic Security issues and mistrust continue to plague the international medical effort to treat polio in…
[Originally posted here in collaboration with Jorge de Cardenas] On April 17, 2014, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its 2013 Global…
[Originally posted here] Since the video statement by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on September 3 announcing al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, South Asia has…
Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based terrorist network, has wreaked havoc in West Africa since its reemergence in 2009. The group gained international notoriety for its kidnapping…
Welcome to the second installment of JPI’s Monday Briefing, where Politics & IR students can read up on recent and notable political developments, upcoming events,…
Monday Briefing | February 2 Welcome to the first entry in our new Monday Briefing series. The Monday Briefing intends to provide the student…