Ramadan: Trials and Blessings of the Holy Month
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and is one of the five pillars of Islam. It’s a month where Muslims around the...
An (A)typical Election - France 2017
Last week, one of the main French newspapers Le Parisien announced it would stop commissioning polls in the run-up to the French...
Foreign Policy Takes a Back Seat, as New Voters Focus on Change at Home
This year’s US Presidential election is an important one. Both sides believe that a lot is at stake, and both sides are being confronted...
Super Tuesday: The Millennials’ Playground
Our modern day “Super Tuesday” first emerged in 1988 and through several generations of tradition and candidates has taken on its own...
A Game of Trumps
The presidential race is coming…. So what does Donald Trump have in common with Game of Thrones characters? Following the death of...
20 Years after Dayton – How the Peace Accords thwarted the Genesis of a Common Bosnian Identity
December 14, 2015 symbolises a remarkable anniversary: Twenty years ago, the signatures of Slobodan Milošević, Franjo Tuđjman and Alija...
Commemorating Srebrenica
Today the world has come together in Srebrenica to remember. “Srebrenica”, the name of the eastern Bosnian town, stands as equivalent of...
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...