Europe Archive
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Merkel and the NSA: Diplomatic shock waves crossing the Atlantic
Posted on October 30, 2013The transatlantic relations have hit a low, the deepest in living memory. Whereas the invasion of Iraq represented diverging opinions on foreign policy between several European states on the one ... -
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Brazil and Turkey’s Ripple Effect
Posted on June 30, 2013Over the past four weeks Brazilians and Turks have been holding mass protests against their respective governments, albeit for very different reasons. Despite the catalyst for these protests being ... -
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PRISM, Tempora and Creeping Authoritarianism on the Internet
Posted on June 27, 2013Due to Edward Snowden’s leaks, we now know that the United States and United Kingdom are monitoring communications data on a massive scale. I presume that everyone has read enough ... -
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Serbia’s Journey to the Holy Grail: A Report on its Accession into the EU
Posted on June 24, 2013Serbia has been seen as corrupt, politically unstable, technologically backward, and filled with ethnic tensions. The violence Serbia has engaged in tainted its reputation and it will remain in infamy ... -
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Margaret Thatcher’s Carrot and Stick approach towards Apartheid
Posted on April 10, 2013This article was originally published in The Huffington Post Margaret Thatcher stirred up sentiments among many in the UK, but her foreign policy characterised by the Falklands War, the fall ... -
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Northern Ireland’s Negative Peace
Posted on February 13, 2013by Jonathan Lima-Matthews and Greg Dawson Progress or Failure? “Northern Ireland remains a divided society” was the summation of the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report. There has recently been a ... -
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Brexit? A Very Long Awaited Speech on Europe
Posted on January 24, 2013Yesterday, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, gave a speech on the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union. Whilst praising the EU and highlighting Britain’s ... -
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Kirchner, Megaphone ‘Diplomacy’, and The Falklands
Posted on January 15, 2013An Unsolved Problem Last year Argentine President Christina Kirchner publicly argued for a reassessment of who should control The Falkland Islands. Bizarrely, Hollywood actor Sean Penn felt the need ... -
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The European Union: Reconciliation at its best and a Peace Nobel Prize well deserved
Posted on October 13, 2012If you read this article you are likely to be a fellow EU citizen. The EU, that is you, me, all of us. Congratulations to the Peace Nobel Prize, well done, ... -
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A Brief Update on Previous Blog Post on the Eurozone
Posted on September 13, 2012Further to my post on the failures of the European Union and its respective governments, I felt it worthwhile to briefly discuss the news from this week. The good news ...