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The Covid-19 Dichotomy: The stark differences between the East and the West
By FEE MERALI Across South-Asia, people are returning to life as usual. Pubs and restaurants are open for business, non-essential shops...


What will a Biden administration mean for US-EU relations?
By TERESA TURKHEIMER Who could ever forget that iconic photograph taken at the G7 summit in 2018 – reminiscent of a renaissance painting...


Nagorno-Karabakh: will the recent ceasefire be permanent this time?
By CODY FRITZ After three failed ceasefire agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the past two months, it appears both parties are...


Poland and the right to an abortion - A dangerous mix of Church and State
By CHLOE CAMPBELL-HAMILTON In response to Poland’s newest abortion laws, thousands have taken to the streets to protest against the new...


‘Some damn fool thing in the Balkans’: Great Power entanglement in Nagorno-Karabakh
By DOMINIC GILONIS In one of his final speeches to the Reichstag, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck compared Europe to a powder keg....


Italian Referendums - Mamma Mia, here we go again?
BY ZACH ROBERTS Considering the fact that we are still feeling the implications of the UK’s last referendum over four years on, it may...


How Putin keeps his power
There is a now heavily criticised mistake in the writing of the history of the Soviet Union by Americans in the mid-20th century. There...


There is No Quick Fix for the 'Migrant Crisis'
As with countless other pressing issues, the migrant crisis that faces the continent of Europe, and the European Union (EU) alike, has...


What will a post-Merkel EU look like?
By TERESA TURKHEIMER On the eve of Germany’s accession to the Presidency of the Council of the EU, Angela Merkel explained her plan for...


It's Duda's Poland Now
By CHARLOTTE EARL On the 13th July 2020, the people of Poland awoke to find that Andrzej Duda would be their President for five more...
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