Commentary: With Sweden’s Elections, Europe’s Collective Left Moves Right
On Sunday, September 9, yet another European right-wing party increased its popular mandate, this time in Sweden. Seventeen percent of the electorate cast their vote […]
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Next Stop on the Populist Wave – French Elections
With just a few days left before the French Presidential election, many are anxious to see whether the wave of nationalist populism seen in the United […]
US entry in to World War I: More than the Lusitania
On April 6, 1917, the US Congress declared war on the German Empire, officially entering World War I and injecting fresh bodies, capital and resources […]
Failed Opportunity: How America’s flawed Russian policy aided the rise of Vladimir Putin
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian citizens found themselves in a completely transformed and alien environment. At first glance, the new […]
OULU, FINLAND: The City of Black and White
In late August I woke up at 5am to go jogging before my bike ride through empty streets to the office. The sun had already […]
Victor’s Justice and the International Criminal Court
Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes; the International Criminal Court (ICC) is charged with the heavy burden of trying to adjudicate some of the most […]
Refugees and their Mental Health in the Welfare State
Since the end of 2014, Europe has experienced an increased influx of irregular migrants matched only by migration flows during the Second World War and […]
Towards an EU Global Strategy?
As I am writing these words, the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is the European Union’s (EU) diplomatic department, and the High Representative for […]
Europe’s Migrant Crisis – of the 5th Century
Rome was not built in a day, the saying goes. Yet the idea of a rapid “fall of Rome” seems to be commonly accepted: non-Roman […]
The Good, The Bad, and The Refugees
No matter where you look, from shocking pictures and TV reports to newspapers and radio, the current influx of refugees from the Middle East to […]