KCNAFrom Kim Jong-Un’s newfound love of basketball to India’s dowry culture, International Policy Digest has covered some pretty meaty subjects over the past year.
In this list we’ve included an analysis of Kim Jong-Un’s love of basketball and the motives behind his decisions and what to expect in the year ahead by Daniel Wagner and J.K. Joung, the recent ruling against the NSA’s metadata program by Binoy Kampmark, John Lyman and Eric Jones’s analysis of President Obama’s appearance at the Saban Center where he offered his most forceful defense yet of the Iran nuclear agreement reached in Geneva, Conn M. Hallinan’s analysis of the ongoing negotiations with Iran and the recently concluded Third Plenum in China that offered few actual reforms by Andrew Ludwig.
We’ve also included for your consideration, a lengthy analysis of neoliberalism in India by Abhirup Bhunia, a backgrounder on Ralph Miliband by Binoy Kampmark, Kerry Sun’s analysis of the escalating Syrian refugee crisis and a list of thirty-five young foreigners making an impact throughout Africa by Scott Firsing. By all means read through the list and see if you agree. Be sure to share any of the article’s with your friends on Facebook and Twitter and leave a comment, we’ve made it quite easy to do so.
Kim Jong-Un and Basketball Diplomacy
By Daniel Wagner and J.K. Joung
Judge Leon and the NSA: Outlawing the Metadata Program
At Saban Center, Obama Offers Clearest Defense of Iran Nuclear Deal
By John Lyman and Eric Jones
China’s Third Plenum is Adrift in a Sea of Old Rhetoric
Neoliberalism and the Welfare State: The Case of Contemporary India
Ralph Miliband: The Illusion of Radical Change
Syria’s Escalating Refugee Crisis
By Kerry Sun
The Death Mill: Qatar and the World Cup
Top Thirty-Five Young Foreigners Making an Impact in Africa
Punitive Strikes: “Russian Roulette” with Unintended Consequences
Avoiding an Apocalyptic War in Syria
By Yanikk Lewis
Grunwald, Assange and Assassination: Loving the Drone Disease
‘House of Cards’: A Victory for Neoliberal Institutionalism
By Leigh Seeger
Cambodia’s ‘Terrorists’: Invoking Terrorism for Political Expediency
By Patrick Hall
The White House’s Flawed North Korea Strategy
By Daniel Wagner and John Lyman
Understanding China’s Internal Migration
The NRA and the Next Stage of Gun Control
R.I.P. RIA Novosti: Putin Rearranges Russia’s Media Landscape
By John Lyman
