Roadblocks Ahead: Foreign Aid, Civil Society, and the Peace Process in Afghanistan
7Over the last 17 years, the support of USAID and other donors helped transform Afghan civil society and media from a loose network of...
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....
Hasta Siempre Comandante: Cuba’s “Secret” Role in African Liberation Struggles
“Cuba is the only country in the world that sent its soldiers to confront the army of apartheid.” With this controversial quote, prominent Cuban...
Victor Orbán’s political agenda?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been the subject of extensive media coverage lately. What is occasionally labelled as anti-EU rhetoric on the subject...
Who Trumped Whom? Making Sense of the US Midterm Elections
By: Thomas Kögler (Guest Writer)
The US midterm elections resulted in a split Congress, with the Democrats taking control of the House and the Republicans...
An Afterthought on Fidel Castro
Havana, Cuba. December 31st, 1960. Celebrations were quieter since the revolution. Whether out of exhaustion or fear, Clara and Eduardo insisted on welcoming the...
Lebanon’s Forgotten Refugees
By: Paula Jahn (Guest Writer)
With international attention focused on the plight of Syria’s refugees, the misery of another displaced group who constitute the world’s...
One Year of Moonshine: Bringing Hope in a Turbulent Era
The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, has been instrumental in facilitating what may become a great step forward towards détente on the Korean...
#Genocide: How Abiy Ahmed and social media plunged Ethiopia into the horrors of civil...
Rwanda, December 1993. Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) goes live. Despite the weak signal and the constant crackling, some of the words make...
The Kazakhstan Riots: Orientalism and Power in the Heart of Asia
Between the 2nd and the 11th of January 2022, Kazakhstan saw the biggest and most violent riots of its three decades of independence. Within...
