Lukuaika: 6 min. Parliamentarians from all over the world gathered for a meeting in Bali to discuss achievement of Sustainable Development goals. There were speeches full of fancy words but little action. How could international meetings of parliamentarians be more useful? [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 7 min. The Arctic region raises many conflicting interests within the EU. It is the struggle between various political interests designed at the state-level, but also at the supranational level that makes the EU’s Arctic policy a very interesting issue to be analyzed. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 6 min. There is now a risk that freedom of expression becomes seen as a topic only for those on the outer edges of the debate, not as an issue that concerns ordinary people. If efforts to improve the tone of public debate are to succeed, they must avoid suppressing legitimate speech and engage a much wider audience. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 11 min. Last autumn’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh broke the status quo, which had roughly prevailed in the region since 1994. While the ceasefire negotiated by the Russian foreign ministry and President Putin personally finally stopped this war, it also gave Russia an opportunity to assemble a few important pieces in its geopolitical puzzle in the wider South Caucasus region. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 7 min. Political spectrums in Portugal seem to follow an international tendency of radicalization and further polarization of speeches and parliamentary rhetoric. Portuguese politics is an interesting point of departure for the study of political and economic crises. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 6 min. Despite the pandemic, Indonesia was able to hold elections last December. Many of the candidates were related to current politicians which sparked a national debate over nepotism. [Lue lisää]