Remina is exploring current challenges in the world’s education systems exacerbated by the pandemic, and what they say for the future development of equity and equality in education around the world.

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Continue reading ““Mind if I dump some nuclear waste into the sea?”: Japan’s discharge of radioactive water”

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Continue reading “US troops are leaving Afghanistan, what’s next?”

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Continue reading “Why carbon offsetting is not the right way to fight climate change”

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Continue reading “COVID-19 and new routes for drug trafficking”

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Continue reading “Darfur, and the Justification for Intervention”

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Continue reading “Civil disobedience, property damage and anarchy?”

Remina and Sarah take analyse the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the recent western support from the EU and the US and what that means for the future of Ukraine and the international community.

The world has seen US-China relations as a spectacle for the last 5 years or so. However, whether the Iran-China agreement is significant enough to warrant such fervent analysis is questionable. This article aims to tie these ends together.

In this article, the author analyses the lessons that the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us concerning the combat against climate change and assesses the impact that this crisis is likely to have on international and national environmental policies.

Details the advent of cyberwarfare, starting with the recent Colonial Pipeline shutdown, then the NHS 2017 hack and talking about the transition from traditional pitted warfare to Cyberwarfare.

Since being elected President of the United States of America in January of this year, Joe Biden has pursued a markedly more radical policy agenda than most observers had hitherto envisaged. What implications do his proposals for global tax reforms have on international commerce, what challenges do they face, and are they feasible?

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Continue reading “China’s climate policy: genuine or ruse?”

The blog provides you with a holistic analysis of the upcoming Iranian Presidential elections, scheduled for June 2021- from examining potential Presidential candidates to exploring the election’s implications on domestic, regional and international politics.

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Continue reading “Cuban Vaccine Sovereignty: Brave David Confronting the Bully Goliath”

Colonialism is often described as belonging to the past. But colonialist behaviours by Western liberal democracies still occur. They now come with a new excuse: the fight against climate change.

Influence, self-sufficiency, insecurity. Vaccine diplomacy has been accused of being an instrument to further one’s own agenda. However, if the opposite result is vaccine apartheid, should one not be so quick to jump to conclusions upon the mere words of “vaccine diplomacy”?

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Continue reading “What is the future for US-Russian relations in the Biden era?”

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Continue reading “India and the Erosion of Democracy”

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Continue reading “UK’s hypocritical Free Speech Policy”

An exploration of the recent elections that are going to be held in Palestine. Examining the roles of the US for Palestine’s democracy, as well as re-affirming the importance of freedom and why it is so important to us.

The article looks at signs of corruption, human rights violations and media dependence and its impact on the European Union.

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Continue reading “The Mass-Media’s Drive for Profit and Elitist Support: Manufacturing Consent”

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Continue reading “Populism in Europe – a deep dive into Hungary.”

Exploring the definitions of democracy and the international community’s ability to uphold it, as well as whether they even should.

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Continue reading “The ‘war on woke’: in defence of free speech?”

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Continue reading “SEX BLINDNESS IN THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY”

This article is an opinion-based piece about the U.S.-Saudi relationship and how the United-States could envisage the future of this alliance.

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Continue reading “What does the new Biden administration mean for future US – Iran relations?”

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Continue reading “Affirmative action in education – a force for good?”

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Continue reading “Behind the “Levelling up” agenda: Britain’s growingly challenging promise to end regional inequalities”

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Continue reading “Why does international policy need behavioural science to tackle the pandemic?”

We often leave our choice of gifts unquestioned, because “it’s the intention that counts”. But we may be doing more harm than we think… In this article, I will guide you through theoretical and societal visions of the gift and its relation to gender.

At the time of his election in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was dismissed as just a Tropical Donald Trump. Since he became the leader of the largest nation of South America, he created his own brand of xenophobic, misogynistic, right-wing populism. What exactly makes him a populist and why did people vote for him? Do these reasons still stand in the midst of a global pandemic?

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Continue reading “#NisiSama: The constructive role of social media in supporting the Ex-Yugoslav #MeToo movement”

This articles provides a new perspective on the situation in Tunisia, a decade after the Tunisian Revolution.