Is Strategic Autonomy Just a Magical Buzzword or a Guiding Concept in the New...
No concept is free from any misunderstanding. The term "strategic autonomy" is not an exception. Placed at the core of the European Union’s foreign...
“A Day Without Us:” Mexican Women Take Action for Gender Equality
Initiatives like the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in 1993, the Convention of Belém do Pará in 1994, and the Beijing...
Palestine, Israel and the Rise of Women’s Voices
By: Clara Knäpper Bohman (Guest Writer)
In October 2017, thousands of women gathered in the Israeli Negev desert. For two weeks, Arabs, Jews, Christians, and...
Democratic Support Without Democracy: Explaining the Popularity of the Chinese Government
Over the past year, international media reports on Chinese politics frequently centred around the oppression of minorities, public surveillance measures, and China’s increasingly aggressive...
Terrorism: A Question of Definition?
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the label “terrorist” has been used in almost every conflict to discredit an opponent. From the Chinese...
Waking Up from the Chinese Dream to a Chinese Debt Trap?
The Chinese Dream (Zhōngguó Měng) was first coined in 2012 by the current General Secretary of the Peoples Republic of China’s only political party,...
Pink-tide redux: A lifeline for the left in Latin America
While much of the world’s attention throughout the European summer was focused on the seemingly never-ending Brexit quagmire, early signs of a broad and...
Duties of a good neighbour? Refugee policies in Jordan
The influx of Syrian refugees has seriously altered the demography of Jordan. As the refugee population continues to grow, pressure mounts on the already...
Secessionist Tendencies in Bosnia – The Beginning of the End for the Bosnian Entities?
At a party conference in 2015 the President of the tiny Republika Srpska (RS) announced a referendum on the independence of this Bosnian entity....
What the West is (or is not) doing about Hong Kong
November 11 2019, was a full day of protests: for 12 hours thousands of demonstrators dressed in all black wearing face masks in solidarity...
