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A Short Detail On The Long War: Ukraine

Introduction  On the 24th of February 2022, Russia announced a Special Military Operation (SMO), marking the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine. While the Putin administration had originally planned to assault Kyiv and occupy the country within the first 10 days of the SMO, the conflict…

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Information and Regulation: Where is the Line? 

Introduction  In a report entitled United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity, the United Nations lays out a universal regulatory framework consisting of five principles. These are meant to be respected by the various international actors involved in media production…

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Semiconductors in Taiwan: What Kind of War? 

On May 27th of 2024, British news agency Reuters reported that China began its third and final phase of a nearly $100 billion plan to drive the nation into self-sufficiency through investing in the crucial semiconductor industry. Parallel to this, the United States and European Union have invested…

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The Russians Are Coming

Introduction Evoking memories of the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis, on Tuesday, June 11th, the Russian foreign ministry announced that it had sent two vessels from its Northern Fleet to conduct training exercises on the outskirts of Havana, exacerbating already existing tensions between Moscow and…

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