Nepal's Left alliance creates new paradigm

Election results in Nepal in December, 2017 took by surprise political analysts and election observers alike. An alliance of former Maoist fighters and the Communist Party in Nepal routed the Nepali Congress Party. 2017 was a year of elections for Nepal. Implementation of this process started with the then Foreign...

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Iran's protests: Domestic implications

The rapid spread of civil unrest in Iranian towns and cities that began in late December has taken nearly everyone - President Hassan Rouhani's reform-minded government, many citizens, and observers - by surprise. Starting in Mashhad, a large religious city in the country's northeast and a stronghold of Rouhani's conservative...

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The rise and fall of commonality

Less than a decade after they were at each others' throats for world supremacy, saner European leaders sat across a table to do away with suspicion and tackle that which was the bone of contention: economic instability. Thus were born the seeds of the European Common Market, today's European Union...

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