- Mar 11
- 3 min
COP 15 - success or failure?
Will December 2022 be remembered as a turning point in the fight against biodiversity loss? The eyes of the world may have been on Sharm...
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Insurgency, Displacement and Corruption: the Cabo Delgado Crisis
Since 2017, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, has been the scene of a deadly insurrection. The conflict threatens...
- Jan 22
- 5 min
- Dec 18, 2022
- 4 min
Europe’s Rogue State - Hungary - Maddie Small?
“The new state that we are building is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state”. Viktor Orbán, Hungary's Prime Minister, robustly stated...
- Dec 5, 2022
- 5 min
Lord Palmerston - a politician for our times?
War in Russia, debates about slavery and colonialism and a fractious relationship with Europe - the story of one of Britain’s most famous...
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
War in Ukraine: Imperialist posture of a long gone superpower
Many analysts claimed there will be no invasion of Ukraine, some examples highlighting that this would not happen due to a lack of...
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
1978 and 2022: A second Iranian revolution? – 1 country, 40 years apart
On 13th September 2020, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s...
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
From Prisoner to Brazil’s President-Elect: the Comeback of Lula
“They tried to bury me alive, and I’m here”. That’s what Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, said in a triumphant...
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Protests in China – a “white paper revolution”?
"White sheets of papers, no faces. There is so much to say that cannot be said. Because big brother is watching and censoring you." This...
- Dec 1, 2021
- 6 min
WORLD. WOMAN. LEADER. A profile feature by Victoria Krüger
This series features Angela Merkel - the outgoing chancellor of Germany. It was his very last phone call as 44th president of the United...