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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...
Abstract In the wake of the overtly manipulated August 2020 Belarusian presidential election, nationwide protests against thirty-year-president Alexander Lukash...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When thousands of Belarusians took to the streets on August 9, 2020, they had one simple demand for President Alexander Lukashenko: “Leave.” Lukashenko, enterin...
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...
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...
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...
