In this article, Ala Sivet explores the different approaches taken by Sweden and Belarus to tackle the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thanks to the testimony of Dr. Karsten Dümmel, Hannah Rittmeyer's article plunges us into the ultra-surveilled system that was former Eastern-Germany and the trauma it left its citizens with.
In this powerful article, Anna Alhoud explains what led to today's protests, through the history of racism and black freedom struggle in the United States and the world.
The Covid-19 health crisis has created the perfect atmosphere for fake-news and disinformation. People, but also countries and heads of governments use hoaxes for political purposes in the midst of this unprecedented situation.
Why are conspiracy theories spreading so easily in times of crisis? And what do they say about our societies and our democracies? These are the questions Nemanja Milosevic is trying to answer in this article.
Christabel Fernandez gives us an insight into the increasingly important role small states play in the world governance and the international scene.
In this article, Johanna Pieper shows us how a developing country like Peru has been handling the current Covid-19 pandemic.
We were not expecting this. We were not prepared for this. By the end of the 1990s the threat was a computer bug that would disable everything. Now every system is running smoothly, but nothing really works. And people’s lives collapse.
Over the years the aim of going for a walk in the city has shifted from breathing some fresh air to shopping. In pre-corona times, taking a round at indoors malls had become a Sunday family activity.
