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Yoana Kartova
Feb 26 min read
Winter Holidays across Europe and Asia: Celebrating the Beauty of Multicultural Winter Festivities
Photo by Ian Schneider via Unsplash Eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve and a massive Yule Goat sculpture may be normal in...
Annalea D'Agata
Dec 3, 20237 min read
Circular Economy in Kazakhstan: How the Government Might Be on the Verge of Committing a Mistake
Photo from UNECE Introduction Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, is now a fervent commercial centre. With the new Belt and Road...
Sophie Zwick
May 16, 20236 min read
UN Water Conference 2023: Reigning in the New Decade of International Water Governance?
Hailed as a success by the United Nations, the 2023 UN Water Conference has come under fire for failing to introduce binding agreements...
Tom Abram & Jerome O’Mahony
Apr 26, 20238 min read
An “Ironclad Friendship”? Sino-Serbian Relations Amidst Global Pressure on Russia
Balancing its European perspective, historical ties with Russia, and need for Chinese investments, Serbia has found itself strategically...
Moksha Pillai
Mar 22, 20238 min read
Necessity is the Mother of Geopolitical Disruption: The Japanese Exemplar in the Indo-Pacific
There is a clear conclusion that can be drawn from Japan’s latest version of its National Security Strategy (NSS) publication: tensions...
Yingxue Wu and Anniek Sienot
Feb 2, 20238 min read
Donor Competition in Africa: Comparing China and the EU’s Aid in Ethiopia
Yingxue Wu and Anniek Sienot analyse the differing approaches of the EU and China regarding aid in Africa, focusing on the case study of...
Sophie Zwick
Nov 27, 20227 min read
Kazakhstan-Russia Relations After the Invasion of Ukraine: Reaching a Turning Point ?
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet Union state, but now an independent state and a key ally of Russia has rejected the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Imogen Chambers
Nov 5, 20228 min read
Russian Justifications for Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Lens of the Securitisation Theory
Western nations overwhelmingly characterised Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine as entirely unfounded and insane. Mainstream news outlets,...