An estimated 20,000 people gathered in front of a courthouse in northern Paris on June 2, defying police orders, to protest the death of Adama Traoré, a 24-yea... Read More
In most circumstances, the Nordic countries tend to present a united front. In terms of political culture, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland have fa... Read More
“Solutionism”, a term popularised by Evgeny Morozov’s 2013 book To Save Everything, Click Here, refers to the pervasive attitude that complex social problems can be resolved with ingenious technological solutions. No serious political or economic ch... Read More
Lessons on Crisis Response from a Suspended Course on Global Environmental History
By Ida Simonsen
In 1755, the city of Lisbon was struck by an earthqua... Read More
by Ben Baichmann-Kass and Sharbani Chattoraj
The world’s oldest democracy and the world’s biggest democracy both escaped the first wave of the COVID-19 pa... Read More
Since the 1990s, Tajikistan has become a major hub for drug trafficking. Each year, around 100 tonnes of opium and heroin is smuggled across the Tajik-Afghan border. This makes the drug industry account for around 30% of the country’s GDP. This has ... Read More
The esoteric nature of the monsoon season in India has often caused devastation in a country plagued by its fair share of environmental issues. The 2018 flood ... Read More
by Samuel Boehms
The Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a global crisis the likes of which the world has not seen for almost a century. Not since the Sec... Read More
by Vivienne Zhang
As the rest of the world adjusts to the new normal of life in the time of COVID-19, this real-time global emergency reveals stark cultural, systematic, and stylistic differences between China’s crisis leadership and that of othe... Read More
When on January 23, a 40-day petition period elapsed with no complaints submitted, a sigh of relief could be felt across the Melanesian region of Bougainville.... Read More
