Pepik Hipik / On Flickr by Pepik Hipik In late November and through December this year, Czech and Slovak people celebrate the 30 years anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, a time when organized student protests created an impulse that led to dramatic social change. Velvet Revolution was a turning point
Liechtenstein’s successful diplomacy
/ Photo by Sebastiano Piazzi on Unsplash Despite being a microstate, Liechtenstein is a successful actor in the diplomatic world scene. However, one cannot deny that the size of a large state matters when it comes to geography, population and economic and military powers. Liechtenstein is a striking exception that proves that size
Disinformation Campaigns
By Lewis Ogden – Fake News Website – Social Media / Flickr The West is planning to split the Russian society and divide the Russian territories; France’s President Emmanuel Macron is a mouthpiece of the Rothschilds; The European Union is on the verge of collapse. These are only a few
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Off-The-Books Diplomacy: Italy And Libya – Beyond Official Agreements
A photo of the Libyan Coast, with a view to the Mediterranean Sea / Wikimedia Commons It is often said that, in politics, there is no room for morality. Indeed, sometimes a State accepts a certain degree of external injustice in order to cope with internal problems. That is, unfortunately,
Predicting Past the Post
A voting division in the Commons Chamber. Source: Wikimedia Commons/UK Parliament The UK uses the First-Past-The-Post voting system to elect 650 MPs to its 650 constituencies. FPTP is a local voting system rather than a national one. This means that, in effect, 650 local elections will take place across the
Clash in Catalonia: Explaining the background of the October protests
Picture from the Barcelona protests of October 18th / On Flickr by Masha Gladkova About a week has passed since Catalonian independence leaders were sentenced for sedition (inciting people to rebel against state authority) by the Supreme Court of Spain. Since then massive protests have followed, and every day people have
Misperceptions of Reality
A photo of the rescue of migrants from the Sea-Watch on August 21, 2018 / Flickr Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said that, “a man sees in the world what he carries in his heart”. Perception and opinion of our environments are partially biased by our preconceptions: we tend to
The Brexit Breakdown: Hot summer days and heated debates
(An edited overlay of the photo of Boris Johnson and EU/UK flags / Flickr & Pixbay) Disclaimer: Note that this piece was written approximately a week before publishing, and therefore does not account for the most recent developments. It has been a hot summer in the UK, not only because it
Salvini: A Populist Force to be Reckoned With?
Right wing populism is on the rise globally, and studies show that the hybrid use of mass and social media is the perfect combination for its further expanse. Among the populist forces who excel in this strategy is Donald Trump, and recently he seems to have met his European equal:
Open Deadline, Closing Border
On the night of April 18th 2019, 29-year-old journalist Laura McKee was shot dead in Derry, Northern Ireland. McKee was an award-winning journalist known for her reports on a young generation of Northern Irish people, the so-called “Ceasefire babies”, who’ve grown up in the shadows of the almost 30-year-long civil