Scotland is coming from the North - But it shouldn’t be a bad thing
The results this morning left me with distinctly mixed feelings. Jubilant over the success of the SNP, yet ultimately worried about the...
Calling Genocide what it is - The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan 2015 is a year of many anniversaries – among the ones to ‘celebrate’ are: 70 years after the...
String of Offences Solidifies UKIP’s Dangerous Trajectory in Britain
If you thought that UKIP couldn’t go any further to shock and offend then you were sadly wrong. MEP David Coburn’s recent comment towards...
The danger of drawing red lines…
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier has done it. While visiting Washington D.C. and talking to foreign politics experts at the Centre for...
A match made in heaven? "Revelations" from the Raif Badawi case and a challenge for Wester
Barack Obama with King Abdullah, July 2014 The recent Raif Badawi case reveals not only the brutality of the Saudi Arabian legal system...
Nagorno-Karabakh – A Forgotten Dispute in the Heart of Eurasia
Following the coverage of the war in Georgia and more recently rising debates in economic councils across Europe surrounding the issue of...
UKIP's war on Britain
With the run up to the UK general election the debate over who is best to run the country is in full swing. Already there have been hints...
Can societal polarization caused by terrorism endanger European integration?
The Charlie Hebdo massacre is not only about freedom of speech – it may have the potential to severely challenge the European project. ...
Pegida – Have people learned nothing from history?
I despair every time I turn on the German news and hear about another demonstration taking place, with people gathering as a group...
A Safe Haven in the DRC: Getting away with Genocide
The Rwandan genocide in 1994 claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 Rwandans with the majority of those killed belonging to the ethnic...
