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Armin Laschet - Continuity Merkel ad infinitum?
By LAURE RENAULT This year is fundamental for German politics as Angela Merkel plans to step down in September, after 15 years in office....


Cyprus: a never-ending cause of dispute for global entanglement
By DOMINIC GILONIS The ‘Cyprus Question’ had seemingly slipped into the background of geopolitics, with the partitioned island's fate in...


France’s Cycle of Terror: How Systematic Marginalisation and Discrimination leads to Radicalisation
By OISÍN PHILLIPS On the October 21st, French President Emmanuel Macron referred to Samuel Paty as “the face of the Republic” during a...


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...
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