Henry Johnson is a fellow at Foreign Policy. He has previously written for LobeLog and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a degree in history.
Indian army candidates sit in their underwear in a field as they take a written exam after being asked to remove their clothing to deter cheating during a recruitment day in Muzaffarpur on February 28, 2016. India's army made candidates at a recruitment day in Bihar take a written exam in their underwear to prevent them from cheating, reports said March 1, after a spate of exam cheating scandals in the eastern state. AFP PHOTO / STR / AFP / STRDEL (Photo credit should read )
SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT - OCTOBER 27: A pair of SCUBA divers swim over coral during a guided dive on October 27, 2013 in the Red Sea near the resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Sharm el-Sheikh, lying on the Red Sea coast in Egypt's South Sinai governorate, is one of Egypt's most popular destinations for tourists. Egypt's tourist industry has struggled since a popular uprising overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, and tourist numbers have taken a further dive since the Egyptian Military's overthrow of the country's first democratically elected President, Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Sharm el-Sheikh, popular for its beachfront resorts and water sports including SCUBA diving, has faired better than some other tourist spots in the Egypt, with major hotels reporting roughly 20% occupancy during the resort's busy summer season. (Photo by ).
An Iranian woman walks past electoral posters for upcoming parliamentary elections in downtown Tehran on February 25, 2016. / AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)
TEHRAN, IRAN - DECEMBER 18: Grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Hassan Khomeini (R) registers for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran on December 18, 2015. The registration process for the Assembly of Experts will continue until December 23 and the registration process for those who wish to be appointed as nominees for the Parliamentary election will start on December 19. (Photo by )
BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 16: (CHINA OUT) Japanese boy band SMAP perform on the stage at Beijing Concert at Beijing Workers Stadium on September 16, 2011 in Bejing, China. (Photo by )
A Comoran woman walks along the waterfront in Moroni on February 21, 2015 on the eve of the second round of the legislative elections. The second phase of the Comoros legislative election will be a face-off between the party of President Ikililou Dhoinine and his predecessor Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
Huge crowds cheering with Britain's Union flags crowd the Mall towards Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in London on June 5, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wraps up four days of diamond jubilee celebrations with a thanksgiving service and ceremonial carriage procession in London, a formal contrast to the spectacular pop tribute staged outside Buckingham Palace the day before. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read )
ZAHLE, LEBANON - DECEMBER 09: Inhabitants of an informal tented settlement of Syrian refugees on December 09, 2014 in Zahle, Lebanon. The ongoing civil war in Syria continues to force masses of Syrians into neighboring Lebanon. (Photo by )
XINING, CHINA - MAY 4: (CHINA OUT) A worker ties a ring to the foot of a chicken as a quarantine sign at a chicken slaughtering factory on May 4, 2006 in Xining of Qinghai Province, China. Surveillance has been stepped up in Qinghai Province following the discovery of a dead wild goose carrying the bird flu virus in Gangcha County. The Ministry of Agriculture said on April 30 that the dead bar-headed goose found in the county tested positive for the H5N1 strain, the highly contagious strain that has killed 12 people in China. Qinghai is known as a stopping point for migrating birds and the virus killed thousands of bar-headed geese at a nature reserve in the region in 2005, according to state media. (Photo by )
