Author / Aaron Christensen
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Another Europe
The 2008 financial crisis threw European economies into turmoil and caused state debt to rise precipitously. The bureaucracy of the European Union in Brussels concluded that righting economic imbalances required indebted governments to implement harsh “austerity” policies. European states needing financial support or debt relief from the rest of the Eurozone were thus ordered to…
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The Return of the Repressed in Yemen
BY AARON CHRISTENSEN For a country supposedly obsessed with the misadventures of militant groups in the Middle East, the American media’s silence regarding the ongoing conflict in Yemen has been deafening. Perhaps this disinterest is grounded in the fact that Yemen, an arid rectangle in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula, is the backwoods…
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The New Face of Somalia
BY AARON CHRISTENSEN Political maps do not reflect the world as it really is but rather the cartographer’s idealized world. This is particularly evident when looking at a map of Somalia, nominally an independent state with static borders since 1960. In reality, Somalia does not exist as a singular political entity, and it has topped…
