With the lack of a truly democratic government, a leader sympathising with the people and representing their interest might be the best Hong Kong can currently hope for.
The time for negotiation between the US, China and North Korea is now. Let us just hope a cloistered and paranoid Kim Jong Un is willing to come out of his shell.
In a world full of transitions, it is important to add more voices to the chorus of those that observe world events and are concerned with the potential of future conflict.
Emmanuel Macron’s victory represents the reproduction of the same forces which birthed the recent wave of popular apathy and hostility to transnational elites.
Social media provides new forms of, and tools for, activism but its potential to build a global community of politically active citizens should not be overestimated.
An assessment of the role of informal actors/procedures/rules in international relations, with a particular focus on the accession to the European institutions.
If the past is any guide opinion will continue to swing as the effects of BREXIT unfold but these effects are as obscure as those of the decision to remain were in 1975.
The in(security) of the minors is at stake in a semantic and practical power struggle among different actors such as the US, the UN, NGOs, countries of origin and the minors themselves.
In perspective, a train carrying freight from the UK to the eastern side of China shows that such a link is possible, but whether it can be sustainable is another matter.
The existing nationalist discourse can be mapped to an electric circuit, thus at times it seems nationalism operates almost like Immaculate Conception.
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