Month: August 2025

About Arms embargo When a country is involved in war or violence, arms exports are…

GDP tells us about the size of a nation’s economy, and it is one of…

Today’s markets have sophisticated safeguards against crashes, such as circuit breakers that automatically pause trading…

Election interference refers to illegal intervention with the electoral process to benefit a candidate or…

Nuclear threat The threat of nuclear weapons is the focus of international efforts to prevent…

Authoritarian rule – one-party dictatorships, military regimes, oligarchies, and other autocracies – erodes democracy and…

Global sanctions are a powerful political tool with major global economic implications. They have a…

A Peacekeeping mission, or UN peace operation, is a military or police deployment to defuse…

Political unrest refers to periods of turbulence within the political environment that can impact governance…

An armed group that seeks to advance a popular objective through armed struggle against the…