Nordic Covid-19 responses – as told by Twitter

Annina ClaessonMay 30, 2020

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

A new report denounces the environmental impact of investment lawsuits under the ECT

SubmissionApril 18, 2020

Submitted by Lucia Posteraro A new report by the independent think tank OpenEXP, supported by the European Climate Foundation, claims that the Energy Chart... Read More

Democracy at Work: My Experience as a Volunteer Lobbyist for Climate Income

SubmissionMarch 24, 2020

Submitted by John Ploeg Last month, I joined a lobbying delegation from France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium in Brussels to prese... Read More

Freedom for Patrick George: Italians call for the release of University of Bologna student in Egypt

Marta MasseraMarch 19, 2020

On his arrival at Cairo airport, on the morning of February 7, Patrick George Zaky did not expect to find the police waiting for him. The young Egyptian resear... Read More

Is the EU losing the AI race? It doesn’t matter

Rachel GriffinMarch 16, 2020

In a 2018 article, celebrated historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari suggested that the democracies of the future might find themselves at a fatal disadvanta... Read More

Review: Reece Jones’ “Violent Borders” is an Indictment of Exclusionary Border Policies

Rachel GriffinJanuary 24, 2020

On the 23rd of October 2019, the bodies of 39 undocumented migrants from Vietnam were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, south England. O... Read More

Johnson’s Brexit Deal: Has the Prime Minister finally overcome the Irish Border Issue?

Sophie SmithJanuary 15, 2020

It has now been over three years since British citizens voted to leave the EU. Yet, a rift within the government remains, that has stunted much of its progress... Read More

Dialogue for Peace: A Day at the Paris Peace Forum

Sharbani ChattorajNovember 30, 2019

If you are a student of the Paris School of International Affairs, chances are high that you were marked absent from your classes on Nov. 12 and 13, and you we... Read More

On elections in Kosovo: will Albanian nationalism obstruct the prospect for peace?

Marta MasseraNovember 25, 2019

On Oct. 6, 2019, parliamentary elections took place in Kosovo. This was the fourth election since the 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia and came aft... Read More

Growing threats to democracy and press freedom: Why we must protect those that inform us

Meike EijsbergNovember 12, 2019

“Each year, one journalist gets a Pulitzer prize and one hundred get shot.”  This was the message shared by the United Nations on the 2nd of November, ... Read More