Revolution at home: Unmasking Hong Kong’s summer of discontent
submitted by Jeremy Ha
My hometown has been in the news a lot lately, and when people ask me about it, I am sometimes at a loss for words. My home is known ... Read More
Australia’s Disdain becomes China’s Gain: How strategic competition threatens to re-shape the South Pacific
Are the South-Pacific Islands becoming a new center of global strategic competition? In recent years, it appears as though the traditional power balance in the... Read More
Photo Essay: Activists Combat the Climate Crisis at Châtelet
by Meike Eijsberg and Annina Claesson
On Oct. 7, Extinction Rebellion launched its largest action yet, titled International Rebellion. At 10 a.m., the peace... Read More
After the Global Climate Strikes, what’s next for the planet?
by Annina Claesson
Nearly 8 million people – that is how many people who took part in the global climate strikes from Sept. 20 to 27, 2019. Protests spanned... Read More
Photo Essay: Unity in Diversity
Indian culture is a vibrant example of pluralism. Contradictions and co-existence come together for a whole greater than the sum of its part.
Review: European elections show a continent divided
By Darcy French
Europe is grappling with its identity, and debates over the future of the Union have reached the polls in European elections held in May. Re... Read More
Global Upgrade and Networks: The Imperatives of Global Governance
By Michael Xizhuang Zhou
As Yuval Noah Harari reminds us in his best-selling book Homo Deus, “history does not tolerate a vacuum.” Even as we solve old pro... Read More
Justice for Syria?
By Martha Schillmöller
For Adnan Hadad, the Syrian war did not kill the dream of democracy that fuelled the protests in 2011. But like many others he wants ... Read More
The bipartisan politics that led to family separation
By Analucía Partida and Kavita Kapur
In mid January 2019, an issue that caused international outrage in the summer of 2018 resurfaced on the news: family se... Read More
Nuclear proliferation: Entering a new phase of transatlantic security
By Sara Bundtzen
On February 20, in his annual address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin warned top U.S. policymakers to “calculate the rang... Read More