The Pendulum
Chinese Involvement in Africa: the Controversy of “Private” Security
Matthew M. Ployhart There are many instances in history in which a more advanced power has influenced the development of another nation...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 21
- 5 min
Russia in Ukraine: An Examination of Russian Motivations for Invasion
Matthew M. Ployhart In 862, Vikings under the command of Oleg of Novgorod founded the Slavic state of Kievan Rus, which was situated in...
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The Pendulum
- May 10
- 5 min
Cosmos and Conflict: The Russian-Ukrainian War and Global Space Partnership
Mary Grace Nimmer On July 15, 1975, the world witnessed the success of the first international space partnership, the Apollo-Soyuz Test...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 27
- 4 min
Inside Putin’s mind: Moscow’s Motives Explained
Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer As discussed in part one of this series, Putin has repeatedly denounced and denied Ukraine’s independent...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 14
- 4 min
A Spoiled Brotherhood: A Historical Look into Russia’s and Ukraine’s Relationship
Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roots which existed before February 24, 2022, before the invasion of...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 8
- 4 min
A Silent Battle: Sexual Violence within Militaries Around the World
Ava Barros In the United States military alone, one in four service women report being sexually assaulted by a fellow service member, and...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 1
- 5 min
The Nihilistic Nutcracker: How Ballet’s Roots Confound Modern Political Issues
Clara Noble As the holiday season winds to a close, the last of the Christmas trees find homes on snow banks and curbsides and holiday...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Canadian Reparations and Welfare Reform
Hannah Roebuck The Canadian federal government and First Nations leaders have come to a historic $40 billion agreement-in-principle to...
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The Pendulum
- Jan 31
- 4 min
Putin’s Gamble: The Ukraine Crisis and How it Started
Gavin Hunt It’s the night of January 21st in Ukraine as a Boeing 747 cargo plane lands and begins slowly taxiing to its parking zone....
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The Pendulum
- Jan 14
- 3 min
Afghan Uyghurs Fear Deportation by the Taliban
Hannah Roebuck The Uyghur population in Afghanistan is estimated to be around 2,000 to 3,000. They arrived in Afghanistan in waves, some...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Africa’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria Vaccine
Mary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Legal victories for Nigerians against the Shell Corporation
Ian Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Moscow or Bust
Clara Noble Russia—a hulking mass of nature, history, and people—can be understood through St. Petersburg’s recent explosion of modernism...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 30, 2021
- 4 min
Forever a Suspect: Terror at Guantanamo Bay
Amani Altwam The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as Gitmo, is a United States military prison that is located on the Guantanamo...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies
Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
Hotel Corona
Hannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
Mozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on Terror
Ian Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 13, 2021
- 4 min
Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Aftermath of Atrocity
Mary Grace Nimmer In the past several decades, both Azerbaijanis and Armenians have called Nagorno-Karabakh home. In 1992, shortly after...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Farmers, the Free Market, and Manufacturing Consent in India
Hannah Stewart In times of significant upheaval–for example, during a deadly global pandemic–other social and economic issues are often...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
The Patsy of the Pandemic
Jade Killion It is no secret that the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected racial minority groups around the world....
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