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SPECIAL REPORT: JAPAN’S NEW MOVE TOWARDS REGIONAL DEFENSE

Japan | China | United States | Philippines | Guam | Northern Mariana Islands | Trade and Regional Relations | Regional Military Cooperation | Regional Relations and Stability
Thursday, May 10, 2012
In a special report, Exovera explores the regional implications of a proposed new initiative involving the joint stationing and training of US and Japanese troops on US bases in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands - a direct challenge to China rapid eastward naval expansion, but one that could also revive longstanding regional fears of Japanese remilitarization.
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The Beatification of Chavez: A New State Religion Cult of Personality

Venezuela | Political Stability and Governance
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Coverage of Chavez’s death in state-run Venezuelan media featured a unique juxtaposition of “Christ” imagery and subtle allusions to militant vigilantism from his ideological disciples. The media propaganda is likely designed to both maintain support and a sense of continuity among the chavista electorate while simultaneously overwhelming any sense of opportunity for the opposition, who have, in their own way, acknowledged Chavez's "immortality."
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have earned international media attention and rebukes at home for suggesting that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez "will return" along with Catholicism's Jesus Christ and Shia Islam's Imam Mahdi, but his remarks were very much in line with increasingly biblical rhetoric emanating from Venezuela’s own state media apparatus. Speaking to...
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Yemen Interventionism: An Exploitative or Irreconcilable Relationship

Yemen | Political Stability and Governance | Terrorism | U.S. Coalition Military Operations and Diplomacy
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Yemeni President Hadi’s acknowledgement that he authorized continued U.S. drone strikes in Yemen generated a heated debate on social and interactive print media. Very few Yemeni’s welcomed his attempt at transparency, and most resented what they viewed as a violation of Yemen’s sovereignty. Meanwhile, extremists and opponents of Hadi labeled him another “American agent” permitting the U.S. unfettered access to Yemeni ground and airspace.
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As part of his visit to the US during the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi addressed a group at Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center on the transition of political, security and economic developments in Yemen. Reiterating the “serious and real threat” of Al Qaida in the Arabian...
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