by Anjali Nahata | May 5, 2019 | University of Chicago
History can be circular in parts of Europe. The divide that has severed Polish politics is very similar to the divide that split France during the Dreyfus affair. The rhetoric employed by the European radical right such as the demand for “revolution against the...
by Simon Machalek | May 2, 2019 | Georgetown University
The Visegrad Group, also known as V4 — a cultural and political alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — used to be seen as a prime example of how countries with an authoritarian past could be drawn into the liberal and democratic Western style...
by Isabel Colyer | Apr 4, 2019 | Saint Louis University
On Sunday, January 13th of this year, hundreds of Polish residents flocked to an outdoor stage in Gdansk to attend the Great Orchestra of Christmas, Poland’s largest annual charity event. It was the Grand Finale concert, and audiences expected to enjoy the music while...
by Conor Gleeson | Mar 12, 2019 | American University
By Conor Gleeson Stochastic terrorism is a term that rose to prominence in 2018 to describe the use of mass, public communication, against a particular individual or group, which incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen...
by Aram Martirosyan | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
The rise in the number of right wing nationalist governments over the recent years has not inspired an optimistic outlook on the prospect of the world affairs as it stands. The ever-growing roster of states that have succumbed to ultimately and...