Eoghan Hughes Edited by Elizabeth White I had not realised just how controversial Professor Mearsheimer was going to be until he delivered this line: “The conventional wisdom in Europe is that the US is a benign hegemon.” Looking at the smirks scattering across the room, I got the feeling that Mearsheimer would have been quite … Continue reading Playing by two different playbooks: John Mearsheimer on Ukraine, the students of Krakow on John Mearsheimer
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Adam Rozalowski Photo credit: Adam Rozalowski It was hard to gauge just how close we were to Pittsburgh. The number on the freeway signs kept getting smaller and smaller, "Pittsburgh 25 - 15 - 10," but there were no skyscrapers in sight. Was this one of those sprawling American metropolises where you still had to … Continue reading Scrubbing off the Rust: What Europe can learn from the American Rustbelt
Maksym Beznosiuk Edited by Catlin Seibel-Kamel Introduction It has almost been two years since the dramatic events in Ukraine that led to the first redrawing of borders in Europe after the World War II. Russia’s offensive policies in Ukraine marked a shift from a universal approach to a selective interpretation of international legal norms and … Continue reading Understanding Russia’s behavior in Ukraine
Sabine Volk Yke Wijnker Edited by Catherine Burkinshaw In October 2015, Groningen’s first year Euroculture students went on a three-day study excursion to Brussels. Together with our teacher and organizer of the trip, Albert Meijer, we visited EU institutions, namely the European Commission and Parliament, the EU’s Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA), … Continue reading Defending Human Rights? Euroculture Students on the Track of Human Rights In and Outside EU
Bilbao: Aupa! Félicie Villeronce Edited by Michelle Perry On boring things: Finding a place to live is probably going to be one of your biggest worries over the two years you will spend as a Euroculture student. You will soon be living out of one big fat suitcase, and you will master the art of … Continue reading Second-semester Experiences, 2015
Bilbao Ander Barón Photos taken by Eva-Maria Bergdolt and Amina Kussainova Edited by Ann Keefer October has definitely been a mad month. Abruptly ending the summer-holiday sleaziness, returning to classes, being besieged by impending presentations in all fronts... Take your pick, but it feels good strangely enough. Probably it's just a hardwired inability to really … Continue reading 2015: Another Round of Carousel
Follow Elena Mitryukova as she wanders in winter-ish Stockholm.
After a whole year, I’m returning back to Uppsala, Sweden, with only two days to recover from the jet leg. It’s back to the classroom for Swedish classes. Welcome back from your holiday (although, for me, it was not really a holiday, as I was working back in my homeland, Brazil), but anyway, welcome back … Continue reading Euroculture: a restart
Are tolerance and respect really what we need to strengthen our European "unity in diversity"? Michiel Luining addresses the issue of multiculturalism in our society.
Ting-jung Chen introduces us to her own "Tiffany&Co": the Mariinsky Theatre.
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