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How You Could Have Predicted Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Other Lessons in Media Signaling
As we now well know, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Three months earlier to the day, on December 24, Russia made a very...
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Nov 29, 20224 min read


The Integration of Ukrainian Refugees into the Education System in Germany and Poland
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, millions of Ukrainians have been displaced, both within and outside the...
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Nov 15, 20224 min read


Why International Governance Will Fail Ukraine
“If there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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May 24, 20225 min read


Putin’s War: Mixed Motives
Eyes glued to the screen, the world watches in horror as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags into April. As people speculate how the...
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Apr 27, 20225 min read


Sanctions May Not Be the Solution The West Thinks They Are
Less than two weeks into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia became the target of 2,778 new sanctions—including the previous sanctions...
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Apr 25, 20225 min read


To All The Blocs I’ve Loved Before: India’s Strategic ‘Love Triangle’ in the New World Order
On February 25, 2022, the UN Security Council convened a historic emergency session to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a...
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Apr 13, 20225 min read


Dancing Russia Goodbye: Ukraine, Russia, and the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
As President Biden picked up the phone to call Vladimir Putin on February 12, 2022, hundreds of Ukrainians gathered in Kyiv to witness...
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Mar 4, 20225 min read


Deplatforming Authoritarians is Good; Preventing their Rise to Power is Better.
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the public in 2012....
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Apr 15, 20215 min read


The 2022 French Presidential Election is a Test of the First-past-the-post System
The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential election are the same as those from 2017: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen....
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Apr 13, 20215 min read


The Fight for Free Speech: Civil Liberties in Spain
“Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge...
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Apr 7, 20215 min read


The Tables are Turning: Germany’s Attitudinal Shift in the Battle Against the Far Right
In the 2017 German national elections, the populist radical-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party won 13 percent of seats in the...
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Apr 6, 20216 min read


Left-Wing Prospects: A Sinn Féin Model
As the popularity of right-wing populist parties has soared in recent years, Ireland contrasts in exhibiting a notable dearth of such a...
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Mar 16, 20216 min read


Catholicism and White Supremacy: How These Unlikely Allies Set the Stage for Poland’s Staunch Aborti
On Wednesday, January 27, the Polish government enacted a near-total ban on abortion with exceptions only for fetal abnormalities, rape,...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


An Uncertain Future: European Leadership Amid the US Retreat
Europe is in the throes of a leadership crisis. For signs of mounting concerns over a possible leadership vacuum, look no further than...
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May 27, 20207 min read


BPR Interviews: Vera Molnár
Vera Molnár, considered by many scholars and historians to be the world’s first female digital artist, began her career in the mid-1940s....
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May 19, 20207 min read


The Comedian President: Volodymyr Zelensky’s Victory in the April 2019 Ukrainian Elections
“ARMY, LANGUAGE, FAITH,” mockingly boomed an actor playing Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, to an enthralled crowd in a...
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Jul 23, 20195 min read


An Orthodox Approach to Soft Power
This month, Serbia’s government approved a Russian plan to construct a vast network of pipeline stretching from the Bulgarian border...
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Apr 17, 20194 min read


The Blame Game: The Political Predicament of British Jews
In 2017, there were 1,382 anti-Semitic hate incidents and a 34% rise in violent anti-Semitic assaults in Britain. According to a 2017...
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Apr 5, 20195 min read


The Polish Rebellion
What happens when the clergy are the ones kneeling in the confessional, begging for forgiveness? Well, the Poles may be about to find...
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Apr 5, 20195 min read


Vox’s Propaganda Campaign: Tell Them You’re Not Extremist
On December 12th, the southern autonomous region of Spain, Andalucia, held elections for parliament. Unsurprisingly, the established...
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Apr 5, 20194 min read
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