Europe

Hungary, once the pioneer of liberal democratic transition, became the first authoritarian Member State of the European Union. How could this happen within the European community, built on…

With the election of President Joe Biden and the return of the United States to the global effort to combat climate change, the Biden administration should take immediate steps to…

Recent events in France have revealed how race remains such a loaded concept in French society. But policymakers must emphasize that this is nothing new, and that public policies need…

Joseph R. Biden frequently references his Irish roots. Now, as the 46th President of the United States, he inherits an historic transnational relationship with Ireland that is far more than…

Although LGBTQI+ activists in Poland are under attack from the Law and Justice government’s conservative agenda, domestic activists are finding ways to resist and persist. Since the 2015 election of…

Policymakers have to balance the United States’ relationship with its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. If the United States gets too comfortable with allied relations, allies will feel more…

Turkey-Greece bilateral relations exemplify a stereotypical security dilemma. Since the discovery of hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean, the bilateral tensions between Turkey and Greece have been exacerbated through enhanced…

The below article is the final installment of a two-part series. This installment is titled “The Urgent Environmental Implications of Traditional Icelandic Elf Beliefs.” Some claim that education, technological progress,…

The below article is the first installment in a two-part series. This installment is titled “The Politics of Sacrosanctity and Elf Belief in Iceland.” For centuries, Icelanders observed a set…

The term soft power was coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s as the ability of a country to influence other countries’…