Category: Politics
Historic Malawi Presidential Election: the Death or Protection of Democracy?
On Tuesday 23rd 2020, Malawi held a historic re-run of their May 2019 elections. Malawi, like many of its African counterparts, have consistently experienced barriers in the way of establishing
Read MoreContinued Poking: The Next Chapter in the Border Conflict between India and China
On the 29th of May 2020, an article was published on the Checks & Balances website showing a narrative of the border conflict between India and the People’s Republic of
Read MoreHong Kong Protests: Still Defiant a Year Later
Almost a year ago, protests against a Chinese bill allowing criminal suspects to be extradited from the Hong Kong territory to Chinese territory escalated, leading to a period of political
Read MoreThe Fear Factor: Driving Cooperation Forward?
In the realm of international relations, few policy decisions are made on grounds other than fear. Indeed, as the neorealist Kenneth Waltz argues, “alliances are made by states that have
Read MoreTwo Bears Poking Each Other: About the Border Conflict between India and China
Amidst a global pandemic, the threat of conflict has risen on the Asian continent. Since the beginning of May, soldiers from the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of
Read MoreFrom failing to moving forward? – Assessing Europe’s “Hamilton moment”
How does an idea, project, son of a war, And a Schuman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot In Brussels by providence impoverished In squalor, grow up to
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter: The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Anti-Black vigilantism
On May 7 2020, a white former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son, Travis McMichael, were arrested in Brunswick, Georgia and charged with murder in the shooting death of
Read MoreCutting Up Traditions: FGM Criminalised in Sudan
Every year, big and small steps are taken in an effort to improve the quality of life of the world’s citizens in order to secure that their human rights are
Read MoreSoft Power of Stone: Defending the Narrative of the Great Patriotic War
The statue of marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev on Prague’s International Brigades’ Square has been a source of controversy for several years. Installed in May 1980 to commemorate the 35th anniversary
Read MoreA milestone for international law; Germany opens first war crime trials against the Syrian regime
It was the first of October 1945 mere months after the Second World War had ended that the allied forces came together in the German city of Nuremberg to write
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