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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reflections on the European Idea in theory and in practise
Continued potential for peaceful change is the principal condition; politics must be a process. That is why politics...
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Published in: HomeStalemate for Trump and Kim, as India and Pakistan risk nuclear war over Kashmir
Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We are not at Place de la République because…
Participants in the counter-demonstration organised in Ménilmontant, Paris on February 19 explain their protest...
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Published in: HomeWhat does Brexit mean? ‘Majority judgment’ can solve the puzzle
Something is going badly wrong in elections and referenda across the world. The culprit is an age-old voting system...
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Published in: HomeEthiopian elite lost in electoral maze under Abiy's gaze
If the Prime Minister chooses to lean on his personal popularity, could he obtain and sustain enough political...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaJuan Tokatlian: "We are a region adrift in global affairs".
The crisis in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro's access to power coincide with Latin America's slide towards gradual...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding Gauland – how to think about radical right leadership
What's the importance of radical right leadership? A discussion of Olaf Sundermeyer’s, Gauland. Die Rache des alten...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Does Europe end in Derry? Peace is at stake
“The UK seemingly leaving the Union, leaves neither Europe, nor History. It is time also for a new sensibility and a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat dam collapses in Europe can tell Brazil
The changes in environmental legalisation to hold the companies accountable is one of the lessons from the European...
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Published in: HomeMigrant crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Just to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Radical-right backlash against Games of Belonging: the case of Mesut Özil
Özil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNicolás Maduro: immolation or eviction
There is something Maduro is right about: Venezuela is part of a higher objective for the most illiberal sectors in...
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Published in: HomeThe wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exception
The German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The radical right, immigration and the future of the EU
In the May European elections, the immigration issue will continue to play a role in the expected success of radical...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela & Cuba: an exhausted revolutionary?
Venezuela's oil populism is mired in a deep crisis. Cuba is transiting to a capitalist restoration of its own. But...
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Published in: openIndiaA tale of two events, and two cultures
The Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA European take on Warsaw’s anti-Iran show
Analysis of US diplomacy and discourse after May 2018 suggests that the administration has revived its 1979...
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Published in: 50.50There’s a backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’
Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian Right, Ontario’s premier...
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Published in: 50.50‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countries
Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela and the zugzwang
Venezuela is facing what is known in chess as a zugzwang: having to make a move while knowing full well that all the...