Indonesia after election 2019 – politics as usual?
Can the newly elected president of Indonesia offer real reform, or will the election results simply reinforce Indonesian politics as usual?
Can the newly elected president of Indonesia offer real reform, or will the election results simply reinforce Indonesian politics as usual?
Economic crisis aggravating already high inequalities, dysfunctional government and desire to move on from the order inherited from the civil war (1975–1990) are among the main reasons for the protests.
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.
There have been surprising moments when Finnish and Portuguese political histories have intersected.
In ‘Kinshasa Makambo’, director Dieudo Hamadi shows the makings of a revolution to oust Joseph Kabila in the city of Kinshasa.
In “My home, in Libya” director Martina Melilli shows the intimacies of colonialism, war and migration, amidst stories that remain untold.
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.
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?
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?
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?