Social media has enabled the global dissemination of cultural products, from music and movies to fashion and culinary trends. Viral phenomena such as the Korean Wave (Hallyu), characterized by the global popularity of K-pop and Korean dramas, illustrate how digital platforms can drive cultural trends across borders. Similarly, social media campaign

both classic and contemporary sociological insights that enable the reader to understand the transformative roles that the digital has played in social life over the past decades. Using classic sociological concepts – community, the self, gender, consumption, power, and exclusion and inequality – she attempts to demonstrate the continuities tha

Chinese workers’ convoy in Karachi, and two were killed, while at least ten were injured. It was an attack to disrupt China’s Belt and Road Initiative, i.e., the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The changing strategies of the BLA, for instance, its embracing of using suicide bombings and highly coordinated large-scale operations, have increase

The Philippines was willing to cut a deal to return to the status quo ante, having sufficiently repaired the Sierra Madre. Manila had achieved its tactical aim, while Beijing had not. At the next Bilateral Consultative Mechanism between Manila and Beijing, the two sides reached a provisional agreement — the Philippines would bring only necessary

Eritrea’s government has historically resisted cooperation in matters of accountability. During the post-1991 trials, it refused to share military communiqués and other evidence with Ethiopian prosecutors, even when requests did not involve prosecuting Eritrean nationals. This lack of cooperation, said the post-1991 SPO report, hindered Ethiopia