2018 Italian Elections: An Overview (Part One)
The Sunday’s vote: possible post-election scenarios On Sunday the 4th of March, Italian people are called to the polls for the...
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Mar 2, 2018
The 2018 Winter Olympics: Shots Fired
Historically, the Olympic Games have mirrored political ambience. It is no surprise that the 2018 Winter Olympic Games have shown...
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Feb 24, 2018
VVD Maastricht Student Candidates: Interview with Nicky Beckers (#5) and Guiseppe Noteborn (#6)
On the 17th of February 2018, Giovanni Stanga and Gaia Lisi, respectively the Head and the Co-Head of the UNSA Journal Committee, had the...
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Feb 23, 2018
2018 Munich Security Conference: ‘To the Brim and Back?’
The world has moved away from the relative order of American hegemony and has become more unstable, more multi-polar and eroded along...
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Feb 23, 2018
The Eternal Syrian War
The Syrian Conflict: Overview of Current Actors and Patterns In 2011, a group of teenagers in Southern Syria wrote on a wall some...
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Feb 22, 2018
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s PM on the Brink of the Abyss
Israel. Rarely has there been a single word that conjures up such a divisive opinion. And it continues to impress in that regard. Current...
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Feb 21, 2018
Welcome Mr. Ramaphosa
On February 15, 2018, less than 24hrs after Mr Jacob Zuma stepped down, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as the fifth President of...
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Feb 20, 2018
Goodbye and Good Riddance: Jacob Zuma’s Resignation
A change of regime in Southern Africa is the flavour of the moment. Just a few months ago Robert Mugabe, at the time the world’s oldest...
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Feb 12, 2018
Food in Europe: Green, Orange or Red Light?
We all know the moment when someone asks us at the end of the year whether we have New Year’s resolutions or not. By now, you probably...
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Jan 29, 2018
Why You Should Vote on March 21st: Part Two
Students are not second-class citizens Yet, for Janna and Geke, in three years you can expect to integrate; “I think there is a lot of...
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Jan 28, 2018
Why You Should Vote on the 21st of March: Part One
Geke Hasperhoven (on the left) is 8th on the GroenLinks list and Janna Willems (on the right) is 15th. Geke studies at FHML and Janna at...
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Jan 3, 2018
North Korea Beyond the Border
The Case On November 13, a dramatic video – filmed from the surveillance closed-circuit cameras – captured a North Korean soldier racing...
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Dec 5, 2017
The End of the Liberal World Order
Do we live in a world of paranoia and selfishness? Realist thinkers certainly think so. Realism as a school of foreign policy was the...
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Dec 1, 2017
Lebanon: What is going on and why does it matter?
If you know anything about political relations within the Middle East, you know they are a hot mess. Nowhere is this as exemplified as in...
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Nov 22, 2017
A Catalonian Crisis Timeline
As we are well aware, or should be, this turn of events in Catalonia is a cause for consternation in Europe. With the rise of nationalism...
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Nov 20, 2017
Catalonia: Emancipation or selfishness?
There is not much in this world that brings the heart to the throat such as a close miss in a crucial moment. An almost goal. A hand of...
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May 28, 2017
“Losers”: Trump remembers terrorists the way we should.
May 22nd marked 4th anniversary of the murder of British Soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death in the streets of London by two men...
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