The Legacy of Germany’s Reunification
Thirty years after Germany’s reunification between East and West, the two parts of the country remain strikingly different. The origins of many of the differenc...
Category: Europe
A Third Ceasefire in the Caucasus: Will it Hold?
In late September, the latest flare-up in the long running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted in Artsakh, an area of south Azerbaijan near the Iranian border. Th...
A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF ‘JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG’
The haunting German folk-song, “Wenn Wir Marschieren,”[1] serves as a cautionary point about collective German complicity in the Holocaust, and is used as ...
The Role of State Identity in Pandemic Response: The Case of Belarus and Georgia
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the newly independent republics of Belarus and Georgia began the task of building their nation-states. The politic...
To European students in the US,
I know we often feel morally superior to our US counterparts. Trump? Guns? Lack of public transportation? Private prisons? Death sentences? Europe could never! ...
Brother-and-Sister Brotherhood: Sexual Harassment and Gender-Mixed Barracks in the Norwegian Armed Forces
The sun never rose the first day Kari began her service in the Norwegian Armed Forces.[1] Daylight didn’t appear at Setermoen Camp, a northern army base situate...
Revisionist Memory: How the far-right Alternative for Germany is seeking to reshape the nation’s collective memory to promote a Eurosceptic, German-centric foreign policy agenda
Throughout the history of modern Germany, an unwavering government commitment to the remembrance of the National Socialists’ atrocities has permeated an ingrain...
Franco-Era Spain and its Usage of Soft Power
There is no doubt that juxtaposing themes such as cruelty and mercy, fear and love present throughout life and media contributed to the two-dimensional divide b...
The Dutch Far Right is Booming. Here is Why and How it Should be Stopped.
In a country known around the world for its liberal reputation, the Dutch Far Right is booming. “Forum for Democracy” is an explicitly white nationalist party l...
Securitized in Solidarity: How Germany Exploited the Arab Spring To Normalize Schengen Border Externalization
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Allison Meakem, Brown University Introduction During the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel recei...