The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Fri, 17 May 2024 02:22:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-war-part-2-asia/ /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-war-part-2-asia/#respond Fri, 17 May 2024 02:22:26 +0000 /?p=5074 Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s 2024, and global tensions are at their highest level since World War II. European countries are ramping up arms production, extremism around the world is rising, and in Asia, militaries are expanding and modernizing.  What is causing these tensions? Will they continue to grow? Is a global conflict on the horizon? Those are some...]]> /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-war-part-2-asia/feed/ 0 /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-world-war-part-1-europe/ /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-world-war-part-1-europe/#respond Sun, 17 Mar 2024 10:06:57 +0000 /?p=4805 Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s 2024, and global tensions are at their highest level since World War II. European countries are ramping up arms production, extremism in the Middle East is rising, and in Asia, militaries are expanding and modernizing.  What is causing these tensions? Will they continue to grow? Is a global conflict on the horizon? Those are...]]> /news/the-rise-of-global-tensions-how-close-are-we-to-world-war-part-1-europe/feed/ 0 /news/how-india-plays-both-sides-of-the-global-geopolitical-divide/ /news/how-india-plays-both-sides-of-the-global-geopolitical-divide/#respond Sat, 27 Jan 2024 03:32:48 +0000 /?p=4628 Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2009, a new global establishment was founded. BRICS is an economic and political alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, that seeks to counterbalance traditional Western influence.  As a founding member and the nation with the second-largest economy in BRICS, India is a key player in the alliance. However, India purses a...]]> /news/how-india-plays-both-sides-of-the-global-geopolitical-divide/feed/ 0 /features/blackwater-and-wagner-the-rise-of-modern-mercenaries/ /features/blackwater-and-wagner-the-rise-of-modern-mercenaries/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:43:18 +0000 /?p=4561 Reading Time: 2 minutes In the past 20 years, unusual developments have been taking place within the military sphere. Governments have been privatizing their militaries, letting corporations take the place of traditional armed forces as a cost-cutting measure.  These corporations mainly provide security and logistical assistance to augment a military’s administrative capabilities, but are also deployed on the front...]]> /features/blackwater-and-wagner-the-rise-of-modern-mercenaries/feed/ 0 /news/widening-divisions-among-eu-and-nato-members-on-ukraine/ /news/widening-divisions-among-eu-and-nato-members-on-ukraine/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:57:44 +0000 /?p=4511 Reading Time: 2 minutes As the Russo-Ukrainian war approaches its second year, many questions still remain. When will this war end? How will it end? Perhaps for many, those questions are no closer to being answered than when the war began.  Top political leaders of many countries are wondering the same thing. While the U.S. has been by far...]]> /news/widening-divisions-among-eu-and-nato-members-on-ukraine/feed/ 0