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Published in: openDemocracyUKConflict reporting – are injuries no longer news?
The true impact of war – particularly on people injured by explosive weapons – is being obscured by increasingly...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaRadio Hakaya Podcast, episode 4: Rayan - Women in war
Episode 4 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#CrisisInVenezuela: A publicity stunt between heroes and villains?
The crisis in Venezuela has become a media show between heroes and villains orchestrated by foreign powers. What are...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaSpreading sectarianism in the Muslim world
Which country carries most responsibility for the spread of sectarianism in the muslim world? Answer: Saudi Arabia
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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: democraciaAbierta#ElectionsSpain2019: Populist radicalisation, Catalonia, and the far-right
Spain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho is observing the occupation in Hebron?
Following the expulsion of international observers from Hebron, settler violence is already escalating.
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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: 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: 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: 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...
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Published in: 50.50Alleged army rapes amidst Zimbabwe fuel hike protests go uninvestigated
When Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are...
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