Archive

2018

• 3 JulyG7: An Unconventional View of Diplomacy in the Big Picture
• 24 JuneOne Ball to Unite Them All – Politics of the FIFA World Cup
• 20 JuneThe Pacifying Flows of Virtual Water
• 6 JuneThe Curious Tale of the Houbara: Birds and Middle Eastern power politics
• 31 MayHow Truckers’ Protest Brings Change to Brazilian Politics
• 28 May1984 Is Now – How China Keeps Track of Its 1.4 Billion Citizens
• 16 MayMalaysia’s 92-Year-Old Comeback Kid, Mahathir Mohamad
• 13 MayLibya Does Not Come to Rest – Announced Elections in 2018 Will Not Solve the Crisis
• 10 MayBellingcat and Social Media: How to Become an Armchair Journalist
• 7 MayNice, new and smart missiles?
• 5 MayHezbollah’s Footprints in Latin America – How the Wars on Drugs and Terror Coincide
• 1 MayExtraordinary Times: A New Era for Ethiopia
• 26 AprilPathways to an egalitarian society – how to make sense of social psychology of power and sexual violence
• 22 AprilDeath of a Dynasty: Change vs. continuity in Cuba
• 11 AprilSatire – A Humorous Means to Enhance Political Participation?
• 20 MarchWill These Bullets Alter Brazil’s Future?
• 17 MarchPutin’s Power Politics – Why Putin Will Win This Sunday’s Election. And The One That Follows. And The One After That.
• 14 MarchCan politics still be poetic?
• 11 MarchConditions, Challenges and Consequences of Korean Unification
• 6 MarchEgyptian Election 2018: Rubber-stamping the strongman?
• 3 MarchMisinformation & Uncertainty Ahead of Italian Election
• 27 FebruaryMarketing for States – the Power of Nation Branding
• 24 FebruaryEthiopia at crossroads after Prime minister’s surprise resignation
• 21 FebruaryThe Identitarian Movement on the Rise: Understanding Europe’s New Alt-Right
• 19 FebruaryPower of the Passport and Controversies of Investment Immigration
• 15 FebruaryGypsies in Europe: Free Movement or Forced Movement?
• 13 FebruaryThe Beastly Component of Conflict: How War Endangers Species
• 9 FebruaryA Link between Worlds: The History and Future of the Silk Road
• 6 FebruaryTurkey’s Military Invasion in Northern Syria
• 15 JanuaryRodrigo and the Rainbow: Same-sex marriage in the Philippines
• 12 JanuaryPresidential Elections Sparking Riots in Honduras
• 8 JanuaryIt’s the Economy, Stupid: Rising Food Prices Provide Impetus for Protests in Iran  

2017

• 9 DecemberAn Economic War: Sino-Japanese rivalry in Southeast Asia
• 6 DecemberPlotting Against Democracy: Conspiracy Theories and Their Ramifications on Politics
• 3 DecemberBitcoin mining: Undermining state legitimacy?
• 30 NovemberWhat’s happening in Pakistan?
• 27 NovemberBloody Interventions and Opportunistic Alliances – How Putin is Challenging the Unilateral World Order
• 24 NovemberAnd the Twelve Points Go to… Amsterdam!
• 21 NovemberFailing of Jamaica and the Implications for Germany
• 15 NovemberThe Australian dual-citizenship scandal – How the Constitution sparked a government crisis
• 12 NovemberThe Role of Internet Memes in Modern Political Discourse
• 9 NovemberGreatest Nation on Earth?: the Downside to Patriotism
• 6 NovemberCovert Partisan Electoral Intervention 101: How to interfere in a democratic election process
• 3 NovemberDream or Nightmare? – The Real-Life Implications of Artificial Intelligence
• 31 OctoberIrish women continue to fight for their reproductive rights
• 28 OctoberHurricanes Are Having Their Period
• 25 OctoberAbe’s Gamble – A Report of Japan’s Snap Elections
• 22 OctoberA Big Mess in the Oceans – And No One to Clean Up?
• 29 MayNatural Heritage as a Diplomatic Tool?
• 26 MayHow Democratic Debate Suffers Under Self-Censorship
• 22 MayBhang: Flying High Above the Law?
• 19 MayAn Essay on Urban Design – The Problem of the Automobile
• 14 MayThe Fall of Venezuela
• 7 MayTrump’s Realistic Options Towards North Korea Are Limited
• 4 MayThe Politics of Soccer
• 1 MayReimagining “Reaching Across the Aisle”
• 29 AprilAn Equation with Two Unknowns – How the unconventional 2017 presidentials brought about insecurity and hope
• 25 AprilM-Pesa: the mobile revolution in Kenya
• 22 AprilHumanitarian Intervention or Protection of the Interests of Global Powers?
• 12 April…Living Through the Shock of Contrast and Difference: An Interview
• 22 MarchThe Wounded Invisible Hand Regulating the World
• 19 MarchThe White Gold: Lithium Exploitation and its Impact on the Native Populations
• 11 MarchLife after IR: Understanding and preventing conflicts
• 5 MarchNigeria’s Fight Against Radical Islam – Boko Haram and the Chibok Kidnapping
• 1 MarchThe Origins of War – A reflection on a highly contested debate
• 23 February‘The Case for Optimism’ Why 2017 could actually become a shining year for the European Union
• 20 FebruaryWhy maps matter: the hidden power relations in world maps
• 18 FebruaryTurkey: On the Edge of a Critical Change
• 14 FebruaryA Syrian refugee enjoying a one-way ticket to the Netherlands?
• 11 FebruaryWar to the ‘Triple Alliance’: Maduro rejects Venezuela’s Mercosur suspension and declares war against the ‘Triple Alliance’ of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay
• 8 FebruaryHans Rosling – The fundamental hole in media coverage
• 5 FebruaryRutte’s Benefit of the Failing Left
• 2 FebruaryCooperation & Competition in the Arctic Circle
• 30 JanuaryBorn into addiction- how opioids affect the next generation
• 28 JanuaryOversimplification in the era of Complexity – On Twitter’s Role in Reconceptualising Diplomacy in the 21st Century
• 24 JanuaryHelping a Refugee – Helping Yourself? Interview with Anne Neumann-Holbeck
• 21 JanuaryHuman rights vs Intellectual Property: the global regime of pharmaceutical drugs

2016

• 8 AugustPutting a Stop to the Export of Babies
• 28 JulyThe Jante Law
• 15 JulyFrançois de Callières and the Practice of Diplomacy
• 10 JulyThe Modernity Question of IS
• 4 JulyThe Mountain of Men
• 2 JulyBursting the Brexit Myth Bubble
• 27 JuneBrexit: Reflections From A New Britain
• 26 MaySongs of Protest
• 13 MayThe OSCE – a Victim of Its Own Legacy
• 9 MayTowards global justice: Pax Initiative
• 8 MayLocalism, Internationalism, and Nationalism: A 21st Century Debate
• 28 AprilPolitical Cartoons: There’s Some Method to the Madness
• 27 AprilPatarei.
• 18 April(Review) Orhan Pamuk: history, politics, and melancholy in modern Turkey
• 5 AprilThe European Left: All Eyes On Slovenia
• 24 MarchForum Lecture on EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – Q&A
• 18 MarchStatus: complicated – a talk about the Euro-Turkish relationship
• 10 MarchFrom Groningen to the World Bank
• 10 MarchHow Martin Luther King Almost Didn’t Have a Dream
• 6 MarchLessons from Laclau: Are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Populists?
• 6 MarchDesigning the Future- An introduction to Daan Roosegaarde
• 1 MarchTinder: how consumerism drastically altered the way we love
• 18 FebruaryNo Netflix in Indonesia
• 12 FebruaryDesigning Change: The Rise of Humanitarian Architecture
• 6 FebruaryEagles. Dutch Eagles.
• 3 FebruaryCrowdfunding Journalism – Alternative Funding for Alternative Journalism
• 28 JanuaryGenocide ain’t no Genocide?
• 25 January”Risk It All”: Fighting ISIS with Pop Music
• 22 JanuaryShaking Schengen
• 18 JanuaryThe Day Bowie Brought the Wall Down
• 13 JanuaryAchieving Solidarity amongst the EU Member States in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• 11 JanuaryEntering the Field of International Relations
• 7 JanuaryWhy a Beheading in Saudi Arabia Threatens the Whole Middle East
• 4 JanuaryThe Peculiar Political Potentialities of Social Media

2015

• 24 DecemberStaying below 2°C: The implications of the Paris Agreement for the Netherlands
• 21 DecemberBB-8 Star Wars Droid
• 15 DecemberWidening or Closing the Window of Opportunity?..
• 12 DecemberChecks Presents the Three Ultimate Christimas Gifts
• 3 DecemberThe Man Who Turned Fiction Into Reality?
• 22 November‘Islam, for a Better World?’ – The World of Islamic Banking
• 17 NovemberA unified Korea?
• 9 NovemberInterview with Dr. Bob Reinalda Part II
• 8 NovemberIn Conversation with Eric Niehe
• 8 NovemberMemoirs of Exile
• 6 NovemberInterview with Dr Bob Reinalda Part I
• 31 OctoberSeaweed Energy: Food or Fuel?
• 22 OctoberTorn Apart: how the Korean War destroyed a story of Love
• 17 OctoberDo It For Denmark
• 10 OctoberKamikaze in Ankara
• 7 OctoberFriesian Cows in China
• 4 OctoberConcerning Bombings of Hospitals
• 1 OctoberTurkey: A Brief Analysis
• 23 SeptemberCombating Driving Under Influence
• 19 SeptemberNo More Singing Protest
• 16 SeptemberDefining oneself with the perpetual presence in social networks – ICT and human rights
• 14 SeptemberPolitics in the Palmetto State
• 13 SeptemberFighter for Humanity
• 10 SeptemberG’day from Australia: Let’s start at the beginning
• 8 SeptemberRealist Theory in Game of Thrones
• 6 SeptemberThe Danger of a single story
• 4 SeptemberOne More Wall
• 27 AugustModel UN Explores Challenge of Change
• 22 AugustLondon: A Tale of Tower Blocks & Ghost Towns.
• 22 AugustRising Xenophobia in Germany
• 19 AugustHawaii: too Green to Function?
• 16 AugustCrowdfunding a Nation
• 14 AugustUnderstanding the Russian-Ukrainian Energetic Relations
• 9 AugustThe Power of a Flower: Recovering Rwanda’s Agriculture
• 31 JulyUproar in the Internal Market
• 31 JulyThe Tragedy of the 21st Century’s Europe
• 26 JulyMalaria Vaccine Found
• 23 JulyEffective Environmental Policies – Seeking for the Impossible?
• 19 JulyUnited Nations Super Heroes: has Superman decided to renounce his American citizenship?
• 16 JulyBritain and the EU: An Unavoidable Referendum
• 15 JulyIt Is the Small State that Is Concerned About the Effectiveness of the International Laws the Most
• 9 JulyThe Real Crisis in Ukraine
• 6 JulyThe Greeks, the Pope, and the Euro’s Soul
• 2 JulyCambodian Sugar Rush
• 30 JuneNATO – Defensive or Offensive?
• 27 JuneSanctions vs. Sanctions: Poking the Bear?
• 24 JuneMein Kampf reissued: The clock is ticking
• 14 JuneIt is Getting Hot in Here: The Politics of Climate Change in 2015
• 12 JuneExchange in Stellenbosch: Feeling Alive!
• 28 MayBeyond all scandals
• 22 MayTTIP approaches
• 16 MayStudents Engage with Diplomacy
• 11 MayOn Banks, Occupation, and Building a Better Tomorrow…
• 6 MayHow the Media Sets Our Priorities For Us
• 4 MayConnectivity as a Human Right
• 2 MayBOOK REVIEW: Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
• 24 AprilPart 5: “Work hard, play hard”
• 24 AprilPart 4: “A lot of the opposition against TTP is not based on facts and figures”
• 24 AprilPart 3: “I do not consider myself a lobbyist.”
• 24 AprilPart 2: “We are working on public issues, from a business perspective.”
• 24 AprilInterview with Jean-Pierre Kempeneers
• 16 AprilA Tribute to Lee Kuan Yew
• 10 AprilPrague: A History of Self-Immolation
• 7 AprilWhy Tröglitz matters
• 6 AprilTackling Ignorance
• 4 AprilEight Weeks With Ebola
• 30 MarchCameron Dubbed Winner of First General Election Debate – but Did He Really Win?
• 23 MarchEscalation of Violence: ECB Opening in Frankfurt
• 17 MarchXi’s Fight Against Corruption: A Hoax?
• 13 MarchFarewell Pepe! The Legacy of the World’s poorest President
• 11 MarchFighting Misinformation: Google vs. The Internet
• 8 MarchNot so ‘Frently’: Student-Landlord Relations in Groningen
• 2 MarchMove over the Donbass, new fault lines are in sight.
• 27 February“The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties.”   – Frank Underwood
• 25 FebruaryBOOK REVIEW: Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
• 24 FebruarySemester Abroad: A Little Taste of Expat Life
• 18 FebruaryRe-Assessing the Balance of Power
• 16 FebruaryInto the Deep Web 102: Building on Bitcoin
• 14 FebruaryA Wind of Change Coming Up in Europe: Greece and Spain Turning Left?
• 12 FebruaryNever forget
• 6 FebruaryIdeology matters?!?
• 8 JanuaryInto the Deep Web: The Silk Road Marketplace

2014

• 2 DecemberBye Bye South Stream
• 2 DecemberQuill and Ink versus Power Politics: The Continuation of the Cold War Era
• 26 NovemberJens Stoltenberg: a profile.
• 22 NovemberThe Kurdish and Kobane Question
• 13 NovemberRest in Peace Tomas Young
• 12 NovemberA Voice for Tolerance, a Voice for Hope
• 12 NovemberInterview with Siruan H. Hossein
• 4 NovemberInto the Deep Web: A History
• 2 NovemberIs the Enemy of your Enemy in Fact your Friend?
• 29 OctoberDire Detention: Private Security Firms and EU Immigration
• 4 OctoberStudy Abroad: Continental Contrasts
• 9 AugustThe Walter White That You Should Know
• 28 JulyQuo Vadis?
• 26 JulyAntifascism and Patriotism – the case of Josef S.
• 17 JulyCaught Between the Great Powers: Azerbaijan
• 9 JulyThe Greatest Trek in History
• 25 JuneUNEA: from economic to sustainable development
• 21 JuneThe Failure of the ‘War on Drugs’: Drug Trafficking in West Africa
• 19 JuneThe Sixth Great Extinction?
• 16 JuneBringing Atrocities to the Public Eye
• 30 MayThe Market Dynamics of University
• 25 MayThe mute debate…
• 22 MayThe Canons of Journalism: Presenting the ‘Truth’ or Violating the Ethical Norms?
• 21 MayA Venezuelan Spring: Undermined By Fragmentation and Geopolitical Stakes?
• 21 MayA Venezuelan Spring: Undermined by Fragmentation and Geopolitical Stakes?
• 19 MayA Master’s Memoirs
• 16 MayWatching Shadows: Media and Plato’s Cave
• 12 MayIs the ‘ASEAN Way’ finally bearing fruit?
• 1 MayUkraine in Turmoil: a Local View
• 18 AprilSvalbard Global Seed Vault: What Does the Future of Agrarian Culture Look Like?
• 14 AprilFree but not Fair
• 11 AprilChinese Orphanages: Hatching Social Problems
• 5 April“White Gold”- changing symbol of wealth and power?
• 3 AprilTurkey: A Country Torn Between Going East or West
• 28 MarchTaiwan: How Not to Communicate Negotiations
• 25 MarchVita Activa
• 23 MarchWho to blame for the “European Dictatorship”
• 22 MarchThe Shame of our Time: Human Trafficking (Modern Slavery)
• 11 MarchThe Life of a Diplomat: Assassination in Khartoum
• 8 MarchSpain’s identity crisis
• 7 MarchThe Perks of an Exchange
• 25 FebruaryLife of a Diplomat: Bridge Over River Nile
• 24 FebruaryThe postponed conflict – Bosnia’s challenges
• 21 FebruaryCarrying trade into cold waters
• 18 FebruaryA Civilian Force Opposing A Drug Cartel
• 16 FebruaryThe EU is making life hard for refugees
• 14 FebruaryDie Energiewende: Germany’s Green Transformation
• 11 FebruaryInterview: The Life of a Diplomat: a Football Match
• 4 FebruaryHas Global Warming Reached its Expiry Date?
• 2 FebruaryHollande’s fall off the governmental pedestal
• 22 JanuarySimple Business Strategy Gone Wrong
• 16 JanuaryWhere the judge harms you more than the gang
• 15 JanuaryFracking Energy Revolution
• 10 JanuaryThe Power of Brazilian Soap Opera

2013

• 18 DecemberA Spiritual Guidance of the Nation
• 14 DecemberMove Over Somalia, here´s Africa´s Next Failed State
• 10 NovemberThe Muslims of China
• 2 NovemberMilk, Politics and other Perceptions
• 28 OctoberJust in Time: US Fiscal Cliff
• 21 OctoberMinority Scape Goats
• 19 OctoberNo White Christmas for Kim Jong-un?
• 24 SeptemberStudy Abroad: Scotland
• 22 SeptemberThe Anti-Rape Blockbuster
• 18 SeptemberThe Iranian Pariah
• 15 SeptemberAfrican Terrorism With Global Ambitions: The Story of Al-Shabab
• 11 SeptemberMarketing Privacy Friendliness: a New Marketing Tool?
• 9 SeptemberCoptic Christians Accused of Egypt´s “Coup d´État”
• 18 AugustRussian Film, Art and Music… In Groningen!
• 14 AugustOur Future is Bright
• 10 AugustIsrael and its Ethiopian Diaspora
• 30 JulyBloody Ivory: Elephants and Instability in Central Africa
• 24 JulyFESTIVAL NATIVE STYLE
• 30 JuneReview: The Act of Killing
• 28 JuneHands up! It’s the Language Police!
• 25 JuneHow fair is free internet?
• 15 JuneStudying Abroad: Greece
• 10 JuneReview: The Fog of War
• 6 JuneRape and Sexual Violence in Syria’s Civil War
• 30 MayJuggling poor thinking
• 28 MayNo Beer, No Rape?
• 25 MayThe Mars One Project: A One Way Ticket to Space
• 20 MayChamula: Where Coca Cola Is Sacred
• 15 MayWhat a Canard!
• 10 MayBerlin Wall to be Torn Down for Luxury Flats
• 10 MayStudying Abroad: Greece 3
• 5 MayStudying Abroad: Turkey 3
• 1 MayStudying Abroad: Ukraine 4
• 1 MayHunting Witches in Papua New Guinea
• 28 AprilStudying Abroad: Rome 1
• 28 AprilCleaning Hearts and Minds: America’s War on Drugs
• 28 AprilMarriage as Last Resort
• 20 AprilThe Successful UN Intervention
• 20 AprilA Muslim in Japan
• 14 AprilThe Inbetweeners
• 14 AprilThe Kennedy Curse
• 8 AprilA Shadow over the Anniversary of Dutch-Russian Relations
• 7 AprilTurkey is, but are the Turkish ready for peace?
• 5 AprilFrancois’ Sporty Tax
• 30 MarchSouthern Ambition: from and for the South
• 24 MarchAn Economy Running on Money from Abroad
• 21 MarchCarlos the Jackal
• 20 MarchLove Letter to Pope Francis
• 14 MarchThe World’s Most Dangerous Criminal
• 11 MarchStudying Abroad: UKRAINE 3
• 10 MarchLet the Sunshine in! Solar Fuel as a Solution for the Energy Problem
• 8 MarchStudying Abroad: TURKEY 2
• 6 MarchColonial Cloth or Cosmopolitan Creativity?
• 4 MarchFracking: a Justified Fear of the Unknown?
• 2 MarchStudying Abroad: UKRAINE 2
• 1 MarchStudying Abroad: TURKEY
• 27 FebruaryPollution in space
• 23 FebruaryDon’t Mention the Genocide – Hidden Armenians in Turkey
• 20 FebruaryGoing Dutch: Building Land, Concurring Water
• 14 FebruaryStudying Abroad: UKRAINE
• 13 FebruaryBitter sweet chocolate
• 12 FebruaryStudying Abroad: GREECE
• 8 FebruaryHaiti: After the Earthquake
• 6 FebruaryHouses for Sugar: Trade in Cambodia
• 4 FebruarySouth Africa: Riot or Revolution?
• 1 FebruaryThe Mountain That Eats Men
• 31 JanuaryLa Crisis
• 28 JanuaryThe Wonchi Experiment – Can Tablets be Teachers?
• 26 JanuaryRussian Money under Cyprian Sun
• 24 JanuaryMine Blowing Art
• 22 JanuaryPhilippine Overseas Labour Office
• 20 JanuaryQueen Beatrix and the Singaporean Masterpiece
• 18 JanuaryThe Unnoticed War of 1864
• 16 JanuaryWorld’s Poorest President
• 12 JanuaryGypsy Kings
• 11 JanuaryLooking Down the Fiscal Cliff
• 10 JanuaryThank God – Blasphemy Law Throughout the World
• 7 JanuaryThe Ost-Hippies of the DDR

2012

• 26 DecemberPlaying Telecom Monopoly
• 21 DecemberChristmas in China: from holy day to holiday
• 15 DecemberForced sterilization: Transgender reality in Europe
• 1 DecemberEthical Traveling
• 23 NovemberA Grave Story
• 20 NovemberThe Worldwide Symbol of Rebellion
• 16 NovemberThe Axe-Effect
• 4 NovemberNo Payday for Madgermanes
• 26 OctoberMission Morocco: Not Aborted
• 25 OctoberA Lost War
• 17 OctoberNeo-Nazi’s in Mongolia
• 16 OctoberThe Man Who Died Drawing the World
• 12 OctoberRecurring Problems in South Africa
• 5 October600 Km For a Better Life
• 30 SeptemberPacific Apartheid
• 25 SeptemberPauline Marois’ Parti Québécois: The Separatist Dream
• 20 SeptemberTeddies for Democracy
• 16 September‘Democratically’ elected Somali President
• 14 SeptemberMaffia Government
• 11 SeptemberFrance and Homosexuality : Changing Ideas Under Hollande?
• 10 SeptemberConservative Stronghold on a Red Continent