By Helena Reinders Five years ago, over 180 countries and the European Union signed the Paris Agreement, also known as COP 21. By doing so, they all agreed that by 2020 all those who signed should hand in their new climate policy plans. Between the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the UnitedContinue Reading
By Helena Reinders 2021 will mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Netherlands. In those 60 years, the Netherlands has changed a lot. Through these changes, the country has moved towards an era in which the focus lies on technological and sustainable development. During this period,Continue Reading
By Arianna Pearlstein Earlier this month, over 10,000 protesters, many of them students and first-time demonstrators, filled the streets of Bangkok to demand government reform. As they stood in front of the Democracy Monument, created to commemorate the 1932 bloodless revolution which ended absolute monarchy in Thailand, the protestors raisedContinue Reading
By Martyna Olejnik The recent events worldwide, whether it be the protests in support of the BLM movement or against the attempts of certain governments to limit or retract LGBTQ rights, forced me to take a step back and reconsider my own role in speaking up and advocating for thoseContinue Reading
By Joanna Sowińska On the 9th of August 2020, the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected for his 6th mandate as the president of Belarus. Belarus applies a two-round system for its elections, meaning that if no candidate obtains more than 50% of votes, a second round is held in whichContinue Reading
By Helena Reinders 2021 will mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Netherlands. Over the course of these 60 years the country has experienced rapid economic growth and has established itself as a prominent country in technological industries. The country has become one of the world’sContinue Reading
By Joanna Sowińska While most people would suggest that states are the simplest entity to describe how the world functions, the use of the word state can be sometimes confusing because of its debated meaning. Today, the United Nations system counts 193 sovereign member states, from which 187 have noContinue Reading
By Aryan Goyal The first time I heard about Jacinda Ardern was right after the tragic March 2019 shootings at mosques in Christchurch. Firstly, her unorthodox response focused on empathising with the directly affected Muslim community. Moreover, her efforts to denounce racism embedded in society in an effort to bringContinue Reading
By Arin Doshi Donald Trump has been the president of the United States of America (USA) since January 17th, 2017, taking responsibility for a nation gripped with bitterness as political division sets in between the citizens of the country. These are divides that are linked with clashes between the RepublicanContinue Reading
By Arianna Pearlstein In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, ignited by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery among countless others, the modus Operandi of police disproportionately criminalizing Black Americans has taken center stage. The question many Americans are asking themselves is how toContinue Reading