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Europe

Romania: observing modern feudalism. Part one: the nobility

In modern Europe, we believe that feudal practices have been entirely eradicated and that modern democratic republican regimes are the sole source of state authority. By Republic, we refer to a system of government that is a pu...
by Tiberiu Dodan
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Israel

Who Killed Arafat?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] Eight years after the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafa...
by Nadim Souss
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Egypt

A new beginning for Egypt?

Egypt is in turmoil. The presidential election has raised many questions and given the answer to none. One has to wonder today: was the January 2011 revolution beneficial for the Egyptians? “The tree of liberty must be refres...
by Nadim Souss
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Asia

The Issues Surrounding This Week’s ASEAN Summit

The annual ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers meeting is in full swing this week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and thus far the talks have been highly revealing of the major trends and themes in the reg...
by Jenghiz von Streng
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Europe

Why public spaces matter in the Twitter revolution, and how they are under threat

For anyone who now questions the uses of Twitter or Facebook, or dismisses them as trivial and unimportant, point them to the Arab Spring. Point them to Tripoli and Tunis, to the fall of Mubarak and the loosening of Assad’s i...
by Gareth Lewis
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UK

Alex Salmond: Freedom for Scotland {Cartoon}

by Sam Kirk
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Africa

‘Things Fall Apart’

My maternal grandmother has been an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) since 1997, immediately after the December elections and the subsequent ethnic clashes that ensued. My maternal grandfather and his second family followed th...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Europe

Pro-austerity VVD’s victory in Dutch elections hides the real winners of last night’s poll – a social democratic Europe

With over 96% of votes counted, the result of yesterday’s Dutch election sees Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing Liberals (VVD), set to stay as Prime Minister. But the closely fought election left his party with only two mo...
by Gareth Lewis
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Football

No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics

  Nation-states have recently come under attack, as several scholars have argued that a global world requires novel forms of governance that will eventually make old nations a relic of the past. For the time being, however...
by Lorenzo Piccoli
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