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Igor Lukes: ‘US attitude towards Europe is above party lines’

By Jakub Janda on 28/04/2012

We present to you an interview with Igor Lukes, Czech-born professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. Our correspondent Jakub Janda questioned him about Republican Primaries, role of foreign policy in American political campaigns, and the puzzlement of the Europeans over distinguishing the Republicans from Democrats.   Jakub Janda: President Barack Obama has [...]

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Trafficking of Women in the Balkans: A Modern-Day Slavery

Trafficking of Women in the Balkans: A Modern-Day Slavery

By Arda Bilgen on 25/03/2012

Over the past decade, “trafficking in persons” or “human trafficking” for commercial sexual exploitation has been one of the fastest growing areas of international organized criminal activity. In simplest terms, human trafficking is “a cruel, ruthless, and cynical form of human exploitation, a serious crime, and a gross violation of human dignity.”1 In legal terms, [...]

Posted in Analyses, Social Affairs | Tagged border control, human trafficking, security policy, the Balkans | Leave a response

Germany and the crisis of the periphery

Germany and the crisis of the periphery

By David Grodzki on 13/03/2012

Germany has played a major role in every discussion revolving around the current Greek budgetary crisis. Not only has the country been singled out as the biggest creditor, and more generally as Europe’s paymaster, but it has also come under severe criticism for enforcing an export driven economic policy that condemns its European partners to [...]

Posted in Analyses, Economics | Tagged economic policy, eurocrisis, Germany, Greece, Merkel, trade relations | 2 Responses

Is Israel willing to go alone against Iran?

Is Israel willing to go alone against Iran?

By Zsolt Csepregi on 01/03/2012

It should not come as a surprise that after experiencing a new stalemate in solving the Iranian nuclear crisis, „intelligence sources” leaked that Israel would not warn the US before attempting to destroy Iran’s unchecked and secret nuclear facilities. The real question is what would be the result of such a pre-emptive attack and if [...]

Posted in Defence & Security | Tagged Iran, Israel, Middle East, nuclear weapons | Leave a response

Latvians reject Russian as their second official language

Latvians reject Russian as their second official language

By Toms Rauhvargers on 25/02/2012

Here we are again. It is exactly 21 years and one month since the last time when Latvian people had to stand up for their fundamental values. In those cold winter days of January 1991, Latvian people were united in their common effort to regain their independence, freedom of speech and democracy. It had to [...]

Posted in Social Affairs | Tagged Baltic states, democracy, minority rights, Russia | 1 Response

Chalk vs. Tablet: Can FATIH Project Revolutionize the Turkish Education System?

Chalk vs. Tablet: Can FATIH Project Revolutionize the Turkish Education System?

By Arda Bilgen on 20/02/2012

In many ways, and by any standard, Turkey is a vibrant country. Those who follow events in Turkey closely would definitely agree, as they must nowadays have difficulty with following the dizzying pace of events and making sense out of them. To be more concrete and specific, it would be appropriate to mention a few [...]

Posted in Analyses, Social Affairs | Tagged education, Turkey | Leave a response

Embargo on Iranian oil: A move to save the US Dollar hegemony

Embargo on Iranian oil: A move to save the US Dollar hegemony

By Ondrej Slechta on 02/02/2012

Acting through its ambassadors, the European Union has announced the imposition of an oil embargo on Iran from July 2012 on as well as placement of sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank, which aim to disrupt the funding of the country’s nuclear programme. But will that suffice? Will it have any effect? Or will it rather [...]

Posted in Economics, Foreign Policy | Tagged dollar hegemony, embargo, EU, Iran, oil, US hegemony | Leave a response

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