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Politics

The New Silk Road

China’s Belt and Road Initiative provokes divided narratives in Kenya

March 18, 2024 • by Keren Zhu

Despite initial optimism, the Chinese-financed Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project's uneven distribution of benefits and unintended consequences unveil a complex interplay between global ambitions, local politics, and community dynamics in the Belt and Road Initiative....

Race

black on Black

The digital future of color bias and racism

June 15, 2020 • by Asha Hassan Nooli

Asha Hassan Nooli is a rising sophomore at Lang College, and a first-generation American coming from a Somali background. She is interested in stimulating social reform on a global scale. The essay that follows was Hassan Nooli’s contribution to the New School Dean’s Honor Symposium, an annual celebration of the ...

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Northern Questions About Global Protection Dilemmas

A response to Arc of Protection

July 28, 2018 • by Rainer Bauböck

Arc of Protection: Toward a New International Refugee Regime by Alex Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore is a statement about refugee protection that goes back to basics and spells out a coherent and innovative perspective. After reading the manuscript, I changed my view on many points. I found particularly compelling the argument ...

Northern Questions About Global Protection Dilemmas

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Comments on The Arc of Protection

Toward a New International Refugee Regime

June 4, 2018 • by David Scott FitzGerald

The Arc of Protection identifies major shifts in the international refugee regime, diagnoses current problems, and proposes principles to undergird reforms. The book seeks to renegotiate the existing “grand bargain” between the global South and the global North, in which the global South keeps most refugees bottled up in return for ...

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Translating Non-Western Philosophy

Barriers to philosophical research in the Global South

January 25, 2018 • by Ryan M. Nefdt

Philosophy is an all-encompassing discipline. As a field of inquiry, it has both direct and indirect foci. The latter often involves engaging with other fields, e.g. the philosophy of physics, or biology, psychology etc. The former, on the other hand, aims directly at the human condition. Questions of consciousness, agency, ...