By Krzysztof Siczek. Krzysztof Siczek provides an analysis of the legitimacy crisis of the European Union and examines both its consequences and the remedies that could be employed by European policy-makers. Both popular and academic debates surrounding the European Union have been dominated for the last five years by economic crises. What began as the so-called …
By Yasmine Colijn. On August 12, 2012, a 16-year-old girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was sexually assaulted by two high school football players in the city of Steubenville, Ohio, USA. The horrifying events that constitute the Steubenville rape case and the backlash to CNN’s coverage of the case’s sentencing have refocused attention on how the U.S. and …
By Tom Ford. Recently, a series of telling events occurred in the vast virtual world of cyber space. The first occurred on 21 March when all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) began blocking access to three piracy websites. These included Fenopy, a relatively small site based in Sweden, the ‘leetspeak’ distinguished H33t, and the sprawling piracy …
By Elyse Franko-Filipasic On March 22, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a ground-breaking phone call to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister of Turkey. With U.S. President Barack Obama at his side, Netanyahu apologised for Israel’s actions in the 2010 raid of a Turkish aid flotilla that was attempting to bring aid to Palestinians in …
By Frank Mouritz. It is obvious that the security situation in East Asia has worsened over the last few years. Tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached a new climax in the past few weeks, with relations deteriorating following the latest nuclear weapon test in February and the United Nations Security Council’s subsequent reaction. Pyongyang’s …
By Armando Ortega. Venezuelans will, almost undoubtedly, identify themselves as either chavistas or anti-chavistas for the years to come. Hugo Chávez remains, particularly after his death, a polarising and divisive public figure. For some, he was a social-democratic hero, a rescuer of the poor and forgotten; for others, an awful president who was beginning to …
By Emanuel Ingold. Sanctions against Iran In December 2012, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Iranian people and the international public that the economic sanctions employed against his country were having devastating impacts on its domestic economy. American economic sanctions against Iran have been in place since the revolution in 1979. However, in 2006, multilateral United …
As part of our Pinpoint Interview series, Pinpoint Politics’ Krzysztof Siczek presents an interview with Rafał Sadowski, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). _ May 2013 will mark five years since Poland and Sweden proposed the idea of the Eastern Partnership at the EU’s General Affairs and External Relations Council and …
By Waithera Junghae. The population of the Republic of Kenya will decide next month who will be their next president. At the same time, they will also be electing their Senators, County Governors, Members of Parliament, Civic Wards and Women County Representatives. Given the ethnic violence that occurred the last time a president was elected, in 2007, …
As part of our Pinpoint Interview series, Pinpoint Politics’ Prithvi Hirani presents an interview with Ajit Chambers, founder of ‘The Old London Underground Company’. _ Mr. Chambers, a former executive at JPMorgan Chase, founded The Old London Underground Company in 2009 as a visionary and challenging project to re-imagine London’s cultural landscape. His ambitious plans …
