
Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine highlights Russia’s military capabilities and widespread violations of international law, especially war crimes. However, it hides the fact that Russia behaves differently in different regions. In the Arctic, hybrid tactics represent the norm and recent developments in Svalbard illustrate this tendency. At the same time, we are observing
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Science diplomacy is a hybrid field, shaped as much by the practices of those involved as by the theoretical work carried out by researchers in the humanities and social sciences. This hybridity also concerns the players in this field, who can be simultaneously or successively scientists involved in diplomacy, diplomats who contribute to the conceptualization
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In Ethiopia, the impact of drone warfare is the most catastrophic in Africa. Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in March 2018, he has presided over one civil war after another. Imported drones are part of his strategy, but the international community, including Canada has been indifferent to continuing civilian casualties. Abiy started
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On May 20, 2024, President Lai Ching-te (William Lai in English) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was inaugurated in Taipei as the 16th-term President of the Republic of China (ROC). The inauguration ceremony, which I attended, exemplified the performance of state sovereignty. ROC sovereignty is performed partially through the appearance of twelve “diplomatic allies,”
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