by Michael McClure | Feb 5, 2022 | University of Chicago
A few weeks ago, I received the letter pictured above from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in my mailbox. “Dear citizen! I write to you today because Hungary has a parliamentary election next spring,” the letter reads. Aiming to mobilize the addressees—Hungarian...
by VTRENGA21@KU.EDU.TR | Jan 21, 2022 | Koç University
On 20 November 2021, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Alexander Vucic, gave an interview in Belgrade, where he discussed the most important issues affecting his country today. Asked how he felt about the fact that the US did not invite him to the Democracy...
by EKARAOGLU17@KU.EDU.TR | Jan 9, 2022 | Koç University
Spain insists that the Francoist era is long gone and buried. Despite the broad recognition of the harm endured under the nacional-sindicalista, Spain is again haunted by the shadow of totalitarianism. With the last Catalonia’s referendum, protests, and...
by Spencer Toohill | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
COVID-19 has plagued the world over the past year and a half. The pandemic caused countries to impose border closures and the utilization of mass digital surveillance, moves that may have once been classed as dangerous expansions of state power are now being lauded as...
by Grace Voll | Nov 28, 2021 | Suffolk University
Montenegro is epitomizing the cliches “be careful what you wish for” and “the lesser of two evils”. After 30 years, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) lost its majority and a coalition of parties from moderates to the far-right took over. Both sides...
