Author: Minja Sillanpää
Minja is a second year IRIO student and a layout editor/journalist for C&B. Today, in-depth, analytical journalism is more important than ever, as we see how our news culture is gradually turning into a five-second consumer experience. Minja aims to write articles that expose the intertwined flows of power and money worldwide and hopefully provide the readers with some new perspectives!
One Ball to Unite Them All – Politics of the FIFA World Cup
“Football brings us together in one single team and we are united by our affection for this spectacular, vibrant, uncompromising game. Players of these teams have a great degree of
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Pathways to an egalitarian society – how to make sense of social psychology of power and sexual violence
35 % of women globally have experienced physical or sexual violence. 87 % of women in Vietnam have experienced sexual harassment of some sort in their life time. Every 98
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Power of the Passport and Controversies of Investment Immigration
This article was inspired by an open lecture on the 13th of February given by a RUG professor from the faculty of law, Dimitry Kochenov. In this lecture, which carried
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Bitcoin mining: Undermining state legitimacy?
Cryptocurrencies are digital assets meant to work as mediums of exchange. They do not rely on central regulation but cryptography which, in the absence of banking control, secures transactions, verifies
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Covert Partisan Electoral Intervention 101: How to interfere in a democratic election process
Does your next-door-neighbor-democracy have elections coming up, but you are not convinced that they will make a choice that best benefits your country? Don’t worry! Interference in democratic election processes
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