President Nursultan Nazarbayev (here in 2012) used to his best interest technology in an attempt to shut down any political uprising.
Shamil Zhumatov /Reuters
Forget old-school state propaganda. Kazakhstan’s government has reinvented itself through social media.
A demonstrator holds a Turkish flag outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam in March 2017.
Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Rather than questioning the rule of law in Turkey, European leaders should look at ultra-nationalism in their own countries.
The European union and Turkey cannot afford to further strain their relationship.
Vera Kratochvi/PublicDomain
The integration of Turkey into the European Union could have embodied a counter-discourse to the so-called ‘Clash of Civilisations’. Perhaps it is not too late.
Protesters post a hashtag to social media together to make it trend as they denounce policies of President Donald Trump at the Not My President’s Day Rally in Los Angeles, California February 20, 2017.
David McNew/Reuters
Can social media create opportunities to identify and challenge government pitfalls and problematic policies?
Undocumented migrants are facing increased psychological trauma due to harsh new US immigration rules.
Sandy Huffaker/Reuters
A suicide in Tijuana casts bleak light on the trauma that undocumented immigrants face in Donald Trump’s America.
Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Myanmar’s Rohingya issue has become a full-blown humanitarian crisis that affects all of southeast Asia. ASEAN nations would do well do move beyond their non-interference policy and help.
Residents look on as a police investigator inspects the body of a suspected drug pusher, along an alley in Quezon city.
Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
After a short suspension of anti-drug operations, President Rodrigo Duterte has resumed his bloody war.
Could neo-nationalist leaders join hands across the world? Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Narendra Modi (India) in Goa, 2016.
Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin.ru
Proponents of inward-looking politics have demonstrated an impressive capacity to exploit the globalisation of the political sphere.
Protests in South Africa have been growing, showing increasing discontent with the state.
Reuters/Rogan Ward
Corruption is leading to instability in South Africa, which in turn poses a threat to the country’s national security.
Voters shouldn’t have to choose between being Dutch and being Turkish.
Dylan Martinez/Reuters
A recent spat between Turkey and the Netherlands reveals how Dutch-Turks are badly served by politics.
The wife of a jailed opposition leader, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Dar Digest (story ‘Muhafiz’), February 2015. Free from the fetters of common natural laws, horror stories represent a society’s fears and prejudices.
J.Schaflechner
Pakistani pulp fiction often portrays Hindu characters as evil demons and Muslims as heroes, an attempt to spread nationalist ideology.
The FARC, now undergoing the tricky process of disarmament, was still armed and active just a few months ago.
John Vizcaino/Reuters
Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were excluded from the latest round of peace talks.
Rodi Said/Reuters
Although the uprising in Syria will mark its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
‘Neither criminals nor illegals’: activists painted the U.S.-Mexico border in protest against US President Donald Trump’s new immigration reform.
Jose Luis Gonzales/Reuters
Draconian new US deportation policies are the last straw for Mexico’s government, which has endured months of Donald Trump’s insults and aggression.
The former workers’ camp for the construction of the LNG project in Komo has been looted and stripped bare.
Michael Main
The country is now compelled to send its army into an area where a major resource extraction project has failed to deliver on its promises to landowners.
Children wave Albanian and Kosovar flags for Kosovo independence day, February 2016.
Marko Djurica/Reuters
Recent events in France have triggered more tensions in the Balkans. But analysis should focus on regional tendencies to lean towards Russia or the US than on catastrophic scenarios.
Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Syrian refugees have been banned from the US for the next 120 days. Whatever happens next, the country they are fleeing will never be the same again.
Military members from the Gabonese Armed Forces stand in formation in Libreville, on June 13 2016.
US Army-Africa-Tech. Sgt. Brian Kimball/Wikimedia
For Gabonese officers, military interventions like that underway now in the Central African Republic, are also a pathway to politics.
Will protesters have to flood US airports again?
Patrick Fallon/Reuters
As Trump’s travel ban hangs in limbo, what does it mean for science?