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Africa/Americas/Comments

The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa

Posted on January 2021 by Amelia Pollard

The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...

Comments/Europe

“Nothing Will Be the Same”: How an Abortion Ruling Sparked Poland’s Nascent Revolution

Posted on January 2021 by Nathalie Bussemaker

Blood-red lightning bolts and black umbrellas, two of the major symbols of the ongoing protests against new abortion restrictions in Poland, have filled the cou...

Asia/Comments

Culture of Torture and Intimidation: The Military in Thailand

Posted on January 2021 by Shreyashree Nayak

In 2019, Thai authorities confirmed that four more people were killed in a late-night attack by Muslim insurgents in Southern Thailand. The insurgents assaulted...

Comments/Europe

To Reach Its Targets, the EU’s Green Deal Needs Improvement

Posted on December 2020 by Marius Zeevaert

The European Green Deal is a European Union (EU) project that seeks to radically transform Europe’s economic system to neutralise greenhouse gas emissions and m...

Comments

Revisiting France’s Burqa Ban Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

Posted on December 2020 by Aarushi Sharma

In 2011, France passed the infamous bill that prohibited face-covering in public places. It implied a ban on the niqab for Muslim women as well. The burqa ban w...

Comments/Europe

Out of Months of Protest, a New Civil Society is Born in Belarus

Posted on December 2020 by Natalie Simpson

When thousands of Belarusians took to the streets on August 9, 2020, they had one simple demand for President Alexander Lukashenko: “Leave.” Lukashenko, enterin...

Europe

Erdoğan Calls for a Two-State Solution in Cyprus as Turkey’s Bid for EU Membership Remains Stalled

Posted on December 2020 by William Howard-Waddingham

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called in a news conference on November 15, 2020 for a two-state solution in Cyprus. Cyprus is made up of two geopolitica...

Arts and Culture/Asia/Comments

Putting the Best Art Forward: the Power of Art Over Military Conscription in the Republic of Korea

Posted on November 2020 by Samantha Larkin

How can art protect a nation?  The Republic of Korea’s Military Service Act [1] stipulates that once men turn eighteen, they have roughly ten years to complete ...

Comments/Middle East

Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean: Turkey Clashes with Neighbors Over Offshore Gas Reserves

Posted on November 2020 by Liam Will

Introduction Tensions are rising in the eastern Mediterranean as Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece clash over access to significant offshore gas reserves.[1] Turkey ha...

Africa/Comments

Ethiopian Tigray Crisis Threatens Stability in Horn of Africa

Posted on November 2020 by Dominique Castanheira

Escalating violence between the national army and those loyal to the northern Tigray region has brought the threat of civil war to Ethiopia and instability to t...

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