Ecuador’s new constitution grants nature legal rights and humans the ability to sue as proxies. Environmentalists hail this as a major step towards conservation. But is this anything more than a principle that is practically unenforcable and legally meaningless?
How can the international community mitigate the risk of nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan, without legitimizing their weapons? Kai presents a concluding analysis on the dynamics of nuclear deterrence in South Asia.
A basic assumption of nuclear deterrence is that through mutually assured destruction, nuclear weapons prevent war. But do the characteristics that made deterrence successful during the Cold War, apply to South Asia? In the first of a two part series, Kai evaluates how nuclear deterrence may play in the enduring Indo-Pak theater.
What does Raul Castro’s ascension to Cuba’s presidency mean for change on the island?
The FARC are not legitimate combatants, as Hugo Chávez would have us believe, but rather a terrorist organization.