Articles

Lukuaika: 6 min. In a typical scenario in today’s humanitarian aid, expatriate managers coordinate operations from safe areas, while local partners within conflict zones deliver actual aid to beneficiaries. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 7 min. There have been surprising moments when Finnish and Portuguese political histories have intersected. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 4 min. In ‘Kinshasa Makambo’, director Dieudo Hamadi shows the makings of a revolution to oust Joseph Kabila in the city of Kinshasa. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 5 min. In "My home, in Libya" director Martina Melilli shows the intimacies of colonialism, war and migration, amidst stories that remain untold. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 7 min. The European Parliament missed an opportune moment of the post Lisbon treaty era. Despite this, the Common Agricultural Policy is still a recognizable and influent foreign policy mechanism enhancing the role of the EU as a global actor. [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 9 min. How the pursuance of two leading norms of climate change mitigation – state sovereignty, and free markets – has contributed to the marginalisation of other key norms of global environmental governance, including social justice? [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: < 1 min. Is there a crisis of democracy? Phd Candidate Laura-Elena Sibinescu thinks that if we look at the bigger picture there are reasons for optimism. But first, we have to ask two other questions: what is democracy and what is a crisis? [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 8 min. The records of former State Security Service (Stasi) in the German Democratic Republic attract many citizens even today. However, the Stasi records show their misunderstandings and manipulation of personal information. In that case, how can/should researchers use the former secret police’s files in spite of its unreliability? [Lue lisää]

Lukuaika: 5 min. Both violent and sanctioned destruction of monuments as symbols of an oppressive regime has been a powerful tool of preparing space for prospective political changes. This article addresses versatility of civic stands in relation to development and implementation of ‘decommunization’ policies in post-Euromaidan Ukraine. [Lue lisää]