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Category: Europe

Our Europe desk covers the European continent and the North Atlantic.

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Column/Interviews/Europe

Toward a “Grander Strategy of Containing Putin’s Russia”: Ambassador Michael McFaul on Engagement and Containment in a New Era of Great Power Competition

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Natalie Simpson

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia on May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) Michael McFaul served a...

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Column/Europe

Former French President on Trial: Corruption and Alleged Ties to Gaddafi

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Yusra Mohamed

Jerome Lavrilleux, center, a former cabinet director for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives at the courtroom Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Paris. Former ...

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Column/Americas/Europe/Science and Technology

Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Liam Will

“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...

Column/Europe

Secularism, Separatism, and Silencing: How Islamophobia is Codified in the Name of ‘Laïcité’

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Gianna Griffin

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...

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Spring Issue/Essays/Europe

Following the Fork in the Road: A Comparative Framework for Analyzing Democracy’s Development in Belarus

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Angela Howard

Abstract In the wake of the overtly manipulated August 2020 Belarusian presidential election, nationwide protests against thirty-year-president Alexander Lukash...

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Spring Issue/Essays/Americas/Europe

Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Sydni Scott

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...

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Column/Europe

Why We Need to Uncover White Savior Logic of Volunteer Tourism

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Will Waddingham

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...

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Column/Europe

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

Posted on January 6, 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...

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Column/Europe

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

Posted on December 16, 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...

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Column/Europe

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

Posted on December 2, 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...

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