by Sangkook Lee | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
Introduction The suicide bombing in August 2nd, 2026 (in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, 14 people died and more than two dozen people were injured) is not only an accident, but also one of the main evidences showing personal...
by Yun Jeong Gwak | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
On April 1, 2024, Bertha Gisela Gaytán stood at a campaign rally in Celaya, a city in Guanajuato torn apart by a cartel turf war. She was running for mayor, promising to fix the roads and rein in the violence. Weeks earlier, she had formally asked federal authorities...
by Jiyeon Han | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
If an active-duty military officer works inside a civilian government agency, who is really in charge of that officer? The civilian agency, or the military that the officer still belongs to? Indonesia made that question much more important in 2025. In March, Indonesia...
by Yeowon Jung | Oct 16, 2026 | George Mason University
When people think about how democracy dies, they often imagine violent military coups. However, in the modern world, democracy usually dies slowly, legally, and from within. Tunisia was once celebrated as the sole success story of the 2011 Arab Spring. ...
by Byeoree Heo | Oct 16, 2026 | George Mason University
Can a nation surrounded entirely by autocratic giants keep its democracy alive when internal corruption threatens to pull it apart? Sitting directly between Russia and China, Mongolia stands as one of the most remarkable political anomalies of the post-Cold War era....
