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  July 21, 2023 FIFA has gone to great lengths to keep soccer and politics separate, and in the past has applied the same apolitical facade to both the men’s and women’s game. In recent years, though,...

• Revisiting the Washington Consensus, 30 Years After Its Birth | World Politics Review

  In the fall of 1989, the British economist John Williamson prepared a background paper for an upcoming conference at the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington, the aim of which w...

• How a Rising China Has Remade Global Politics | WPR

  As much as any other single development, China’s rise over the past two decades has remade the landscape of global politics.

• Why China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Project Will Fail—and How It’s Already Succeeded | World Politics

  Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series about China’s One Belt, One Road infrastructure initiative, also known as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. ...

• Despite Advances in Women’s Rights, Gender Equality Lags Around the World | World Politics Review

  Despite progress in codifying women’s rights into law, advances in gender equality around the world have been halting, at best.

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  Over two years since the coup that toppled Myanmar’s democracy, the ruling military junta is losing control of much of the country.