Weekly Roundup: February 21

Alex Langer
As snow melts in Montreal and Canada cleans up at Sochi, the McGill International Review keeps on keeping on. Since the end of the Cold War, Vietnam has abandoned a strict communist system for liberalizing economic reforms. Yet, the…
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Bachelet’s New Chile

Beni Fisch
Since the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile has arguably been Latin America's greatest success story. Even as the rest of the region has slowed dramatically since 2011, Chile continues to grow at a healthy rate of around 5%. And…
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After Nasser, Nasser?

Alex Langer
On the 3rd of July 2013, after a series of large protests across the country, the first democratically elected president of Egypt was deposed by the military. By some, this was understood as the bitter end to the Egyptian population’s…
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The Case for Chinese Democracy

Sam Hersh
It was over 100 years ago that Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a pivotal figure in the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty and saw the establishment of the Republic of China, said about democracy to the Chinese people: “This world trend is…
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Weekly Roundup: February 7

Alex Langer
The beginning of a new month, and international politics never stop moving. MIR, as always, is on top of it. Police brutality, uncaring politicians and ghettoizing walls are business at usual for the Roma of Eastern Europe. Reporting…
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South Africa’s Complex Youth

Tshweu Moleme
As some conventions might suggest, political parties and the state have, for quite some time, considered themselves to reign supreme over South Africa’s youth. This might be changing as the youth demographic has become diverse; in…
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