Insights

Urban development remains one of the most pressing issues faced by both the Global North and South. According to UN Habitat, 96,000 new affordable housing units must be constructed per day to provide adequate housing for up to 3 billion people by 2030, currently without it. This target may seem daunting; however, it is one […]

Efficiency, Legitimacy and the Future of Adjudication Artificial intelligence is no longer an auxiliary technological resource. It has become astructural component of contemporary legal practice. In international arbitration in particular,AI is reshaping not only procedural efficiency but the epistemological architecture ofdecision-making itself. In my recent book, The Practice of Law and International Arbitration in the Age […]

The pursuit of modernization is a common aspiration for all of humanity, yet historical experiences demonstrate that there is no singular, prescriptive path to achieving it. In the context of today’s increasingly multi-polar and diverse global landscape, Chinese modernization represents more than just the results of China’s own leapfrog development. It has emerged as a […]

(Lessons from Iceland, Bhutan, and New Zealand) “It is not the walls that make the prison, but the prisoners themselves.”— Mak Dizdar Caught by two Guernicas, which we frivolously call conflicts – one Semitic and the other inter-Slavic – of uncertain ends and its beginnings, and trapped in a cycle of confrontational multispatial despair, the […]

Countries are now more interconnected than ever before:  International politics is a complex hodge-podge network of events, interests, ideas, realities, and aspirations.  Who helps us make sense of this rapidly evolving global web? It’s the foreign affairs reporters! Foreign affairs reporters are journalists who specialize in covering international news and events. At the most basic […]