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Flashpoint South Caucasus | Eurozine

In New Eastern Europe, Jennifer S. Wistrand reflects on the human consequences of three decades of turbulence in the South Caucasus, where the conflicts in

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No longer a footnote | Eurozine

In the early days of March 2022, as Russian troops were approaching the outskirts of Kyiv, international media were focused primarily on the Ukrainian frontlines.

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Tearing down Fortress Europe | Eurozine

Migration is one of today’s most powerful, and most entrenched, imaginaries. The word conjures up images of walls, borders, police, uncertainty, destitution, misery, and death.

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Too busy surviving | Eurozine

At one point in his 1984 essay ‘Permission to narrate’, Edward Said described urging family and friends in Beirut to record what was happening during

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Forerunners of the free market

In economic terms, state socialism is usually associated with the monopoly of an authoritarian state over core elements of the economy such as trade, the

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Of our daily plov | Eurozine

As a child in communist Romania of the 1980’s, I remember pilaf was one of the staples in the Ottoman-influenced cuisine of the south of

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Disappearing possibility | Eurozine

In Ny Tid, Otto Ekman writes on the murder of Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet who together with his brother Salah, nephew Mohamed, sister Asmaa

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Running scared | Eurozine

Leading up to the March 7 State of the Union speech, Biden supporters were scared. They had every reason to be. The President’s approval rating

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The Ides of March | Eurozine

The ravages of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine are nothing less than ecocide. As the Commander in Chief and under the doctrine of command responsibility,

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Booze is a symptom, not the problem

The top 10 countries facing alcoholism globally are almost exclusively European. In 2019, 8.4 percent of the EU’s population aged 15 and older consumed alcohol