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On December 16, 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a televised news conference announced a new National Security Strategy (NSS) along with two other documents, a national defense strategy (NDS) and Defense Buildup Program (DBP), indicating a major departure from the last seven decades’ ...

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Discussions concerning political systems often slip into a false binary – that legitimate political systems should either take the form of closed selection methods or open elections. But the proposed model is – in many ways – a hybrid.

An interview with Alfredo Montufar-Helu Jimenez on the rise of populim among global leaders.

The United States seeks to build an “alliance of democratic countries” with Europe, Japan, Australia, and other countries to oppose what it designates as “authoritarian countries” represented by China, Russia, and some others. However, the alliance of “democracies” have been rocked by a series...

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