Sweden’s NATO Bid and Turkey-Kurdish Relations
Powerful organizations of world leaders rarely let new members into their ranks. On October 23, 2023, Turkey—a member of NATO since 1952—submitted Sweden’s bid ...
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Like A Glove: Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage and American Foreign Policy
At 2:03am on the 26th of September, 2022, the Geological Survey of Denmark recorded a 2.3 magnitude tremor originating from the depths of the Baltic Sea; but th...
Punishing Putin: The Age of Financial Warfare and Omnipresence of the Dollar
“Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable,” stated President Joe Biden as he cited scenes of “major war crimes” being co...
Sweden, Finland, and the Future of NATO
There are six European Union (EU) member states – Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta, and Sweden – who are not a part of the North Atlantic Trade Organiza...
Looking Ahead: The European Union’s Energy Poverty Crisis
Energy poverty is a rising crisis in Southern Europe, especially in Bulgaria, where more than a quarter of the population can not afford to heat their homes. Th...
Shining through the Dark: How Has Ukraine Experienced an Energy Crisis?
March 1, 2022. The UN Human Rights Council session is in progress. Suddenly, hundreds of diplomats, exchanging condemning glances, get off of their seats and ha...
International Instability – Born from the Migration of Refugees or a Product of Political Aversion?
Migration can be thought of as a condition of evolving economic, social, and political climates. While migrants are often incorrectly interchanged with “refugee...
Implications of the 1916 Easter Rising: An Analysis of Irish Nationalism as an Ordering Factor of International and Intranational Relations
“Agus gurab as an uaigh so agus as na huaghannaibh atá inar dtimcheall éireochas saoirse Ghaedheal”; And that from this grave and from the graves which surround...
Greenlanders’ Response to Climate Crisis Will Determine Island’s Independence and International Recognition
Global warming has made Greenland’s melting ice sheets the largest contributors to rising sea levels. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a majo...
The European Union’s Rubicon or a New Normal? Brexit’s impact on the dynamics of European integration, and national stay or leave sentiments
As Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, contended in 2018, in relation to the European Union (EU) “crises are open decision-makin...