Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception
“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...
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Secularism, Separatism, and Silencing: How Islamophobia is Codified in the Name of ‘Laïcité’
The French word, ‘laïcité’, represents the constitutional principle of secularism in France. The model of separating religion from public life has long been a c...
Following the Fork in the Road: A Comparative Framework for Analyzing Democracy’s Development in Belarus
Abstract In the wake of the overtly manipulated August 2020 Belarusian presidential election, nationwide protests against thirty-year-president Alexander Lukash...
Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”
This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...
Why We Need to Uncover White Savior Logic of Volunteer Tourism
Yearly, around 1.6 million tourists, most of whom are young, white and from Western countries, go on holidays to volunteer in the Global South.[1] These so-call...
“Nothing Will Be the Same”: How an Abortion Ruling Sparked Poland’s Nascent Revolution
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...
To Reach Its Targets, the EU’s Green Deal Needs Improvement
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...
Out of Months of Protest, a New Civil Society is Born in Belarus
When thousands of Belarusians took to the streets on August 9, 2020, they had one simple demand for President Alexander Lukashenko: “Leave.” Lukashenko, enterin...
Erdoğan Calls for a Two-State Solution in Cyprus as Turkey’s Bid for EU Membership Remains Stalled
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...
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...