Analysis

It has been two months since the most recent installment of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ended with an agreement signed on 9 November by heads of state of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. War [...]

Prime Minister Edi Rama is the author of a new way of doing politics in Albania, focusing on aesthetics and strategic communication, which gave him the name of ‘pop-politician’. The astonishing [...]

In March 2019, Zuzana Čaputová, became the first female President of Slovakia, with a campaign built on a liberal and progressive platform, based on an environmental, pro-European, pro-LGBT, [...]

Thousands of women in Kyrgyzstan are victims of bride-kidnapping every year. According to the report published in 2016 by the National Statistical Committee, about 10,000 cases of [...]

Key figures of the Belarussian opposition have so far been successful in coordinating, encouraging and invigorating protest from abroad. By using mass media, namely Telegram, Facebook and [...]

Against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, on 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan launched an offensive to reclaim the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. After Azerbaijani success on [...]

In February this year, before Covid put a stop on travel, I went to Budapest for a field trip  focusing on monuments and memory. Present in most street names and squares, I was amazed by the [...]

On 5 November this year Hacim Thaçi, President of Kosovo, publicly announced his resignation and flew to The Hague to face trial. Thaçi is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity dating [...]

The fall of the Berlin Wall not only anticipated the demise of Communism as a political symbol in the former Eastern Bloc and beyond, but it also meant for millions of citizens the loss of the [...]

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]