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Putin’s Ainu Recognition: Is Hokkaido Russia’s Next Target?
Just as Japan and China have both acknowledged the importance of engagement with the Arctic’s indigenous peoples in their respective 2015 and…
Does Free Speech Have a Future?
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The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” lays out a coordinated effort to restructure federal governance by consolidating executive power and reshaping institutional norms along partisan lines.
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Putin’s Ainu Recognition: Is Hokkaido Russia’s Next Target?
Just as Japan and China have both acknowledged the importance of engagement with the Arctic’s indigenous peoples in their respective 2015 and 2018 Arctic policies...
Introducing Civil Society to China
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