The world’s blind spots: Underreported humanitarian emergencies
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Afsaneh Hachemian
Mar 1, 20228 min
No end in sight? Where the Ethiopian crisis stands today
Oromo Liberation Front rebels . Photo by: Jonathan Alpeyrie. Licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Licence In...
Ioan-Andrei Cursaru
Feb 25, 202213 min
Russia-Ukraine Crisis Scenarios
Diplomacy has failed, what is next? A week that started with hopes of a summit in the near future between U.S. President Joe Biden and...
Edda Sundström
Feb 10, 20228 min
COP26 and the Realization of Climate Justice
COP26 Sheffield Climate March . Photo by: Tim Dennell. Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0 Introduction Leading up to COP26 in...
Alexander Stonor
Feb 5, 20223 min
Financing through digital currencies: The nexus between extremists and cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin vs Altcoins . Photo by: André François McKenzie. Licensed under Unsplash Cryptocurrencies, led by Bitcoin, have become...
Freya Thompson
Jan 28, 20229 min
A European Outlier: Poland, Abortion Rights and the Erosion of Democracy
Black March in support of abortion rights, Łódź, October 2nd 2016. Uploaded to Wikipedia by Zorro2212 , licensed under Creative Commons...
Stephanny Ulivieri
Jan 22, 20228 min
Forgotten Wars: What happens when conflicts ‘drop off the map’?
It has been a common saying since the turn of the millennium that human beings are now living in the most peaceful time since the dawn...
Gabriel Honrada
Dec 7, 20214 min
How Viable? Maritime cooperation between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the ASEAN
How Viable? Maritime Security Cooperation between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Nour Engueleguele
Dec 1, 20215 min
The Challenge of European Military Interoperability for a Stronger European Defence
© European Union 2014 - European Parliament (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). The idea of a common defence...
Nikola Latkovic
Nov 30, 20215 min
The NIS Directive 2.0: Towards the "Sinatra doctrine" in Cyberspace
When Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy called on the EU to deal with...
Afsaneh Hachemian
Nov 17, 20219 min
A Looming Security Threat: Mozambique’s Jihadi Insurgency & Links to Drug Trafficking
Since 2017, a heavily armed ISIS-affiliated group known as “al-Shabaab” (previously “Ahlu Sunnah wal-Jamaa”) has repeatedly engaged in...
Morane Verhoeven & Freya Thompson
Nov 15, 20216 min
Gender Equal Until We Talk Money: Prioritising Gender on the EU Agenda
The European Union calls itself a ‘frontrunner’ for gender equality. The European Commission claims that “the EU has made significant...
Anoushka Gupta
Oct 27, 20214 min
Centring Justice and Equity in Conversations on Global Vaccine Distribution
Photo: Agência Brasília, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons More than a year-and-a-half into...
Aining Lang
Oct 21, 20219 min
Should monetary-policy reform be implemented in the South African economic and political climate?
The ability of companies and households to adapt to the economic effects of COVID-19 has been increased because of the easing of monetary...
Afsaneh Hachemian
Oct 9, 202110 min
Mali: The Effects of Climate Change in Conflict-Affected Areas.
Over the last decades, Mali has suffered immensely from rising temperatures, variability in rainfall, and armed conflict.
Julieta Longo
Sep 8, 20217 min
Power to the People: Reconciling Chinese Investments with Sustainable Development in Latin America
Members of the mapuche community protesting against a Chinese-backed mining project in Neuquén, Argentina. Source China is currently...
Andjela Draganic
Aug 25, 20219 min
The Ovaherero and Nama Genocide: Why is Germany’s recent recognition not enough?
On 15 May 2021, Germany and Namibia agreed on a Joint Declaration addressing Germany’s colonial crimes after six years of negotiations....
Bernardo Kaiser
Aug 19, 20217 min
The Southern Route: How the Largest Brazilian Crime Syndicate Usurped Latin American Cocaine Routes
By Bernardo Kaiser, South America Research Analyst, with expert insight from InSight Crime specialist Vinicius Madureira (Source:...
Sofia Biasin
Aug 11, 20218 min
Next Generation, Youth? Why We Need More Youth Participation in Sustainable Development Policy
With more than half of the world’s population today under the age of 30, young people will be instrumental in finding solutions to...
Angela Wang
Jul 6, 20217 min
Combat Between the Great Powers in a Low-Fertility Era
In this past decade, the strategic competition between the U.S. and China has been centred on the two countries' economic development,...
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