The International
By Joseph Eyre In the early hours of June 30th, deep inside Iranian territory, a fire broke out at a key nuclear facility near the city of Natanz. Not long after, explosions roared through the night air. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesperson for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) said that the incident caused “significant damage” […]
The Story of Donald Trump’s Election Victory and Defeat in Memes By Loui Marchant In November 2016, the results of the US presidential election sent much of the world’s media into a tailspin of shock and confusion. Among certain online communities, however, the news came not as a surprise but as a validation that memes […]
In this series of articles, Nikhil Bandlish will examine how the result of the U.S. election will impact Latin America. In this third piece, Nikhil examines how President-Elect Joe Biden’s win could alter The United States’ approach to migration in profound ways. Long before Donald Trump ever pledged to ‘build a wall’, migration had become one of […]
By Joseph Eyre Michel Barnier (the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator) only cares about fish. At least, that’s according to one EU diplomat, whose neat quote summarises just how important and symbolic fishing has become during the arduous Brexit process. Making up just 0.12% of the UK’s GDP, and employing under 0.1% of its workforce, this […]
In this upcoming series of articles, Nikhil Bandlish will examine how the result of the U.S. election will impact Latin America. In this second piece, Nikhil examines how November 2020’s result could alter the region’s geopolitics. As the world reels from the effects of the Coronavirus, Latin America will gear up for an important two years of […]
By Jude Holmes This year, the world has appeared to simply stop. Throughout the pandemic, the scientific advancement on everyone’s lips has understandably been the search for a vaccine as many labs have been turned over to cope with Covid testing and antibody research. But the world continues to turn, and wherever there is motion, […]
In this upcoming series of articles, Nikhil Bandlish will examine how the result of the U.S. election will impact Latin America. In this first piece, Nikhil provides a historical overview and outlines why – no matter the president in the White House – diplomatic habits can be hard to break. With the U.S. set to […]
By Joseph Eyre An inherent danger in sudden flare-ups of armed confrontation is that they are rarely clear-cut events. Contradictory claims by participants and the ‘fog of war’ often preclude a reasonable attribution of responsibility and even an accurate timeline of events. One such example was the recent skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops in […]
By Sophie Nepali The world is changing. The current, generally US-dominated, structure of world order looks as if it is steadily deteriorating, with the Coronavirus pandemic serving only to accelerate the trend. Since the end of the second World War, US hegemony has asserted itself both culturally and economically through multilateral institutions, economic interventions, and […]
By Jude Holmes The first cases of COVID-19 in humans were recorded in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. By the end of January, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a warning for all countries to prepare for the spread of the virus. On the 11th […]