The 2016 G7 summit was held in Japan, in an increasingly tension-filled region and amid rapid changes in the local political environment. Obama’s trip to Hiroshima is the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the site. Happening almost concurrently with the summit, tensions between China and Japan are
All eyes are on Kenya the nation is set to hold elections on August 8th 2017.[1] It is feared that the country will plunge into chaos as it did after its 2007 – 2008 elections. This is mainly due to issues of hate speech, the politicization of ethnicity, and
For the past 22 years, the call for independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian populated enclave in south-west Azerbaijan, has been a source of tension not only in the Caucasus but also between the regional powers, Russia and Turkey. Since the war of 1992-1994, Armenians have been occupying and pushing
Tsai Ing-Wen was recently sworn in as Taiwan’s first president, just months after her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a landslide victory in the elections. Known for their support of an independent Taiwan, this new development will likely have new consequences. In the day of independence, two nations have been
