International

Penguin Diplomacy: A Canary in the Snow Globe

Post-Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in an intense scientific and symbolic contest: The Space Race. It began...

Western Alienation: Canada’s Sovereignty Issues Begin at Home

“Vive le Québec libre!” French President Charles de Gaulle famously declared from the balcony of Montreal’s City Hall in 1967. This provocative remark emboldened...

Is Brexit Done? Ten Years Since the UK Referendum to Leave the EU

“We can and will secure our borders we will revive the ultimate sovereignty of our parliament. We’ll discard the foreign laws that protect...

Europe

Heidelberg vs. Silicon Valley: David contre Goliath ?

« Qui domine l’intelligence artificielle dominera le monde. » Vu que le développement de l’intelligence artificielle devient crucial pour le pouvoir des États, l’Europe semble presque...

EU Cohesion Policy in Times of Crisis

The EU's cohesion policy is the centrepiece of connecting citizens to the EU institutions and showing them how the EU can directly affect their...

Strategic Autonomy or Permanent Subservience? Rethinking Europe’s Transatlantic Ties

The world order as we have known it since the end of the Cold War thirty-five years ago has ceased to exist. Instead of...

Economics

Morocco: Africa’s First Tiger Economy?

What Even is a Tiger Economy? In the second half of the 20th century a cohort of East Asian countries managed to transform from underdeveloped...

What Can Pickleball Tell Us About the American Economy?

Once featuring rock ’n’ roll, jeans, and McDonald’s, today’s American culture is proudly represented by… pickleball. This intersection of tennis, badminton, and ping pong...

The Northern Sea Route: Strategic Corridor or False Promise?

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shipping corridor running along Russia's Arctic coast, linking the Kara Sea in the west with the Bering...

Tech & Environment

The Green Side of the Atom: How Nuclear Science is Tackling Water Scarcity, Food Security, Climate Change, and Pollution

Nuclear energy—accident—bomb. For many people, that is the sequence that comes to mind when they hear the word “nuclear”. Decades of dramatic headlines and...

Solar Gardens: A Tool for Community Empowerment

It is no secret that solar power has increasingly become one of the cheapest ways of generating renewable energy, making it accessible for communities...

When Harassment Becomes Immersive: Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Virtual Reality

In 2021, a user testing Meta’s Horizon Worlds reported that her avatar was surrounded and virtually groped by several male avatars within minutes of...

French & German

La montée en puissance de Marine Le Pen : un défi pour Macron sur l’échiquier politique français

Trois jours après la démission d’Elisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal est nommé Premier Ministre, devenant ainsi le premier Premier ministre ouvertement gay et le plus...

Dans l’ombre de Mitterrand: l’origine de la faiblesse de la gauche actuelle

La gauche française est aujourd’hui synonyme de désordre. Loin de son histoire populaire et glorieuse, sa position actuelle semble précaire, marquée par des conflits...

Anton Wein-Wislocki, Referatsleiter für Klima-, Umwelt- und Energiediplomatie im Außenministerium im Interview

Anfang November fand in der Wiener Hofburg das International Vienna Energy & Climate Forum 2023 (IVECF) statt. Das 2008 ins Leben gerufene Forum wird...

Opinion

Why Bulgaria Keeps Burying Its Dead Instead of Fixing the System That Kills Them

Coffins Per Million In Bulgaria, we have coined a phenomenon “War on the roads”. A war. What war? War implies chaos, inevitability, an enemy beyond...

Europe’s Bold Bet on a Special Tribunal for Ukraine: Can Politics Close the Gap That Law Has Left Open?

On 24 February 2022, Russian troops crossed Ukraine’s borders. While the effects were immediate, the legal consequences were not. The International Criminal Court (ICC)...

How the Aliyev Regime Weaponises Trauma to Domesticate Its Nation

While global headlines fixate on the coercion of regimes in Kabul, Moscow, or Beijing, a more polished form of authoritarianism has quietly consolidated itself...