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Observatory on Contemporary Crises
Advancing Knowledge on Crises,
Building Resilient Futures


Cuba and the Failure of International Law
Since 1959, Cuba has been under an oppressive and cruel dictatorship that has committed countless atrocities. From mass killings, political assassinations and labor camps, political censorship, the Cuban people have been held at gunpoint by the Castro regime for nearly seventy years now. While the international community has routinely documented the systemic humanitarian abuses that occur in Cuba, their hands remain tied by the very framework that has failed Cuba, internation
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Inherited Exile: Intergenerational Memory, Political Continuity, and Cuban American Identity
The execution of Ángel María Clausell García on April 29, 1959, at La Cabaña in Havana, Cuba, stands at the center of my family’s memory. He was my great-grandfather. Accused of a crime that was never meaningfully proven and denied due process, he was executed by firing squad by the revolutionary government. His death did not end with the moment of execution. It continued through the family he left behind, through the home that was taken, through the children who were forced
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Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on International Relations
For decades, Hollywood has long been captivated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). From the end of days, apocalyptic depiction of AI in the form of “Skynet” in the Terminator franchise to the brilliant assistant of Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S in Marvel, “pop culture” has spent billions on attempting to imagine what AI will look like. Despite these billion dollar franchises being hits at the box office, Hollywood has failed to properly predict how AI will penetrate and alter one of
Apr 24
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