Indonesia holds the leadership of ASEAN in 2023. So far, the parameters from the view of effects from climate emergency are proper, but the challenge is always in orchestrating mechanism to actions.
Multilateralism from Southeast Asia Read More »
Indonesia holds the presidency of the G20 intergovernmental forum for 2022. The presidency coincides with initiatives and discussions and elite meetings that have global significance, but it seems like practical connections to people’s lives in low- and middle-income countries remains limited.
G20 and Indonesian Presidency Read More »
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?
Sustainable development and parliamentary diplomacy Read More »
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.
The parliamentarization of the European Union’s Arctic policy Read More »
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.
Finland is a world-leading press freedom country, but all is not well Read More »
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.
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war in Russia’s geopolitical puzzle Read More »
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.
The Eurozone crisis and its implications in present Portuguese politics Read More »
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.
Pandemic election in Indonesia Read More »
A new geopolitical order has been promoted by and through transnational anti-gender mobilization. These support networks are not unrelated to the close ties that European far-right leaders maintain with the Russian political establishment.
The new war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone is an evident consequence of unproductive political negotiations and international mediation that have usurped the peace process between Armenians and Azerbaijanis for a quarter of century.
Vicious logic of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process Read More »
