Is Belgrade on the Brink of Its Own Maidan? A look at Serbia’s Ongoing Crisis
Today, Serbia stands at a crossroads, potentially facing a civil conflict or on the verge of steering its politics toward a path of certain stability and growth…
Argentina and Javier Milei’s libertarian experiment
Rarely has a presidential election in Latin America attracted so much attention in the rest of the world, but the emergence of Javier Milei and his libertarian project has focused the attention…
The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: many voices, no shared vision
At this stage, coordinated action by France, Germany and the UK, as in the case of Iran, does not seem to be in sight either. Unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian issue shows the limits…
Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: international laws and treaties are failing to stop a new arms race
As with every potential future threat, it seems, international law and regulation are left scrambling to catch up with the march of technology – to govern what Oppenheimer called “the relations between…
The politics of the castaway story
The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging. By taking human beings out of society, our supposedly fundamentally individualist survival instincts come to the fore.…
One Year of “Russian World”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for a year now. In the speech before US Congress, Ukrainian President Zelensky said:” The Russians will stand a chance to be free…
Democracies don’t just bounce back after dictatorships
Santiago Mitre's film details the complex judicial process against members of the military junta…
Peru protests: What to know about Indigenous-led movement shaking the crisis-hit country
What you have now is an unpopular ex-president in jail and an unpopular president with contested claims to legitimacy in power. It is very different context…
Lost at sea
Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History…
Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff election
With 50.84% of the votes, the former president and leader of the Workers' Party became the president of the South American giant in an election marked by polarization, fake news, and electoral…