Farewell Pepe! The Legacy of the World’s poorest President
Guerrilla fighter, MP, Senator, Minister and eventually President of Uruguay – José “Pepe” Mujica’s life has been more than eventful. The floriculturist that nowadays occasionally appears shaved and in...
View ArticleCameron Dubbed Winner of First General Election Debate – but Did He Really Win?
“Hell yes, I’m tough enough. I stood up against the Leader of the Free World!”, Labour leader Ed Milliband responded firmly against the allegations that he might not be tough enough to run the UK,...
View ArticleWhy Tröglitz matters
On the eve of Easter Sunday a house went up in flames in the small village of Tröglitz in East Germany; the result of an arson attack. The building was supposed to accommodate 40 refugees from May...
View ArticleInterview with Jean-Pierre Kempeneers
On the 30th of April Clio will host its annual conference under the theme “Diplomacy unravelled?”. At this conference, Jean-Pierre Kempeneers will lead a workshop on the importance of economic...
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It Is the Small State that Is Concerned About the Effectiveness of the...
When in 1569 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was created, Lithuania ceased to exist. It was only visible on maps mostly as part of Poland and since 1795 as a part of the Russian Empire. Starting...
View ArticleUnited Nations Super Heroes: has Superman decided to renounce his American...
The comic book superhero, perhaps one of the most “American” inventions of the 20th century. At the eve of World War II, the ‘golden age’ of the American comics began when Superman strode onto the...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Russian-Ukrainian Energetic Relations
Cowritten with Klaudia Nemčická Energy is considered to be one of the most significant forces contributing to world’s economic progress and as consumption of Gazprom produced natural gas represents 34%...
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One More Wall
On the 29th of August 2015, Hungary finalised the first phase of its initial plan of building a wall. The establishment of barbed wires along the 175km of land that separates the hungarian territory...
View ArticleRealist Theory in Game of Thrones
The popularity of TV series about (fictional) political worlds is thriving. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by IR scholars. The acclaimed IR journal Foreign Affairs has published analyzations of the...
View ArticleInterview with Dr Bob Reinalda Part I
Dr. Bob Reinalda studied Political Science and Social History at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1981). Now he is a...
View ArticleWidening or Closing the Window of Opportunity?..
EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – What It Brings to Europeans, Dutch, and Ukrainians The referendum on the approval of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine will be held in...
View ArticleWhy a Beheading in Saudi Arabia Threatens the Whole Middle East
Written by André Harris Beheadings are not uncommon in Saudi Arabia – but one carried out this week has the potential to destabilise the whole Middle East. Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, a Shi’a cleric from...
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Entering the Field of International Relations
In the business of IR it is partly what you know and mainly whom you know… The study of international relations (IR) is a theoretical one. The obligatory courses revolve around systems of ideas,...
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Genocide ain’t no Genocide?
Genocide. A word that triggers intense emotions. A word with some of the strongest connotations, comparable to rape, enslavement or torture. Genocide is the bad stuff, the one crime, especially...
View ArticleHow Martin Luther King Almost Didn’t Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr., the man whose dream we’re all familiar with, became known as one of the world’s greatest orators because of the “I Have a Dream” refrain of the speech he delivered during the...
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Forum Lecture on EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – Q&A
‘Let’s stop being naïve and let’s accept that only by using force can we get Russia to the negotiation table’. In the light of the upcoming Dutch Referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement,...
View ArticleSongs of Protest
In the 1970s hippies embraced the countercultural voices of their generation and protest music was very hip. Now, protest music has a crusty punk rock or dread-locked folk singer imago. However,...
View ArticleThe Modernity Question of IS
The UN has estimated that over 25,000 people from over 100 countries have joined IS. Without the possibilities modern media offers, IS would have never attracted this many souls to their cause. Of...
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Can politics still be poetic?
This article was inspired by a discussion organised by SIB Groningen, on the 12th March 2018, called “Poetry and Politics in Iran: The Power of Verse”. It was led by Professor Asghar Seyed-Gohrab an...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking: How Western Policies Could Be Blamed
On an early Wednesday morning, the Essex Police made the brutal discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container truck, east of London. Not all victims have been identified yet, but it is presumed...
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