The Kazakhstan Riots: Orientalism and Power in the Heart of Asia
Between the 2nd and the 11th of January 2022, Kazakhstan saw the biggest and most violent riots of its three decades of independence. Within...
#Genocide: How Abiy Ahmed and social media plunged Ethiopia into the horrors of civil...
Rwanda, December 1993. Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) goes live. Despite the weak signal and the constant crackling, some of the words make...
Somalia and Kenya Relations: The Road Ahead Post the International Court of Justice Decision
On the 12th of October 2021, the International Court of Justice delivered its judgment on the matter of the Maritime Delimitation in the Indian...
A Never-Ending UN Security Council Reform
In a broad sense, reform can be loosely described as ‘having to do with quality improvement and reshaping the subject matter at hand for...
Is Strategic Autonomy Just a Magical Buzzword or a Guiding Concept in the New...
No concept is free from any misunderstanding. The term "strategic autonomy" is not an exception. Placed at the core of the European Union’s foreign...
Intimate Diplomacy: International Adoption on the World Stage
A shocking 40% of adopted children in the US are of a different race or culture than their adopted parents.
Foreign adoptions have dropped from...
Diaz-Canel’s Cuba: An Open-Ended Question
For the first time in over 60 years, Cuba finds itself without a Castro at the helm. Raul Castro has officially retired from his...
The Françafrique Affair: Mixed Signals in a Love-Hate Relationship
“Between France and Africa, it should be a love story.” With these words, the French president Emmanuel Macron sealed a speech he gave in...
Victims of History: The Power of the Victim Narrative as Part of East Asian...
Nationalism is at least as much about emotions as it is about territorial boundaries. Often, the feeling of pain and humiliation from the collective...
From the Scent of Jasmine to the Smell of Sulfur: The Legacy of the...
Ten years ago, a wildfire of revolts touched off in the Arab world, leading to an unprecedented sequence of events that irreversibly changed the...
