Category: Conflict and Security
Towards global justice: Pax Initiative
It is crazy how people know everything about Kylie Jenner’s lipstick but not about what ICJ does…like which war it prevented and so on. The Pax Initiative is a non-governmental
Read MorePolitical Cartoons: There’s Some Method to the Madness
Before my Core Module, Visual Global Politics, I did never really pay attention to them, I thought they were just some faint dull jokes. However, when I delved into the
Read MoreLessons from Laclau: Are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Populists?
If you live in a cave, or are not aware of a little thing called the internet, then you may be excused for not knowing that in America there is
Read MoreEagles. Dutch Eagles.
The Dutch authorities are currently training eagles to capture drones that are violating the Dutch law. The Dutch Ministry of Transport has mentioned recently that there is an increasing trend
Read MoreGenocide ain’t no Genocide?
Genocide. A word that triggers intense emotions. A word with some of the strongest connotations, comparable to rape, enslavement or torture. Genocide is the bad stuff, the one crime, especially
Read More”Risk It All”: Fighting ISIS with Pop Music
High heels, smoky eyes and Molotov cocktails. At first sight, those words do not seem to define a fighter. Born at the end of the 1980s in Iran, Kurdish singer
Read MoreShaking Schengen
Schengen keeps alive the idea of a Europe free of internal border control which facilitates a rapid and smooth flow of goods, services and persons, without any border check delays. However, the
Read MoreAchieving Solidarity amongst the EU Member States in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
The European Union is currently challenged by a flow of refugees, that mostly originates from Syria. Last year, more than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe. We have
Read MoreWhy a Beheading in Saudi Arabia Threatens the Whole Middle East
Written by André Harris Beheadings are not uncommon in Saudi Arabia – but one carried out this week has the potential to destabilise the whole Middle East. Sheikh Nimr Baqr
Read MoreWidening or Closing the Window of Opportunity?..
EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – What It Brings to Europeans, Dutch, and Ukrainians The referendum on the approval of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine will be held
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