Middle and South America Archive
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The War on Drugs: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Posted on November 24, 2013From the looks of it, one of San Diego’s industrial-looking warehouses, sitting above ground, seem to echo business as usual—yet it masks a much harsher reality, penetrating deep into the ... -
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Brazil and Turkey’s Ripple Effect
Posted on June 30, 2013Over the past four weeks Brazilians and Turks have been holding mass protests against their respective governments, albeit for very different reasons. Despite the catalyst for these protests being ... -
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Kirchner, Megaphone ‘Diplomacy’, and The Falklands
Posted on January 15, 2013An Unsolved Problem Last year Argentine President Christina Kirchner publicly argued for a reassessment of who should control The Falkland Islands. Bizarrely, Hollywood actor Sean Penn felt the need ... -
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Brazil’s “RwP”: An attempt to build trust for the flayed concept of “RtoP”
Posted on August 28, 2012The nascent concept of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) is often described by its critics as a Western idea of how the international community should address genocide, war crimes, ethnic ...