Tag: Vincent Siregar
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Thirsty Partition: Water Politics between India and Pakistan
This essay will explore how water plays a critical part in the current India-Pakistan conflict, focusing specifically on the geopolitical element, as well as related key concepts, such as regional balancing, security dilemmas and how to approach “bad” treaties.
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Arctic Opportunity: Russian Roulette in a Warming World
This essay will analyze how Russia benefits from the warming Arctic, the competition it faces from Western interests and its ambiguous Arctic relationship with China. In doing so, it hopes to shed light on how Great Power Competition, geopolitics and international relations change in some ways and yet stays the same in many others in…
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Empire of Dams: China’s Hydroelectric Geostrategy and Conflicts
Capitalizing on its uniquely strong talent for river construction, China has embarked on an aggressive, multidirectional and increasingly predatory strategy of dam construction for strategic advantage, political leverage and economic profit. This essay will aim to explore how China has used this capacity in its foreign policy and geostrategy, and the resultant implications for neighbouring…
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Bucking the Trend: How peaceful protest won in Algeria
In Algeria, a pro-democracy movement used strategic tact and tactical innovation to overcome a seemingly unassailable hardened regime which had survived the Arab Spring. This essay will break down what, why and how events happened.
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Frozen Catastrophe: Venezuela’s Neverending Nightmare
There is a certain reassuring assumption in politics, that the absolutely despicable and incompetent should never be able to sustain control over a state. After all, the assumption posits, a weak government should be able to be easily replaced by other civil or military powers or actors. However, this is not always the case. In…
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