By Andra Petruta. ‘Burma is a country of many ethnic nationalities and faith in its future can be founded only on a true spirit of union’. This was Aung San Suu Kyi’s remark about the political landscape of her country as she was receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, a statement which accurately draws attention to …
Krzysztof Siczek provides an analysis of the relationship between the European Union and Ukraine after the Ukrainian parliamentary elections and highlights possible ways forward. By Krzysztof Siczek. On October 28th, 2012, parliamentary elections, long awaited and surrounded by controversies, were held in Ukraine. They were widely seen as a democratic test for that country. Two …
by Andrew Singleton “Knowledge is power.” Thomas Jefferson must surely be one of the most quoted persons in political history and the above selection, among his most eloquent and notorious, is vital to analysing the political landscape in the present day. Another of history’s great speakers this week gave a quote that may have significant …
By Enrico Longobucco. Reasons why a technocratic government does not represent a democratic deficit in Italy, but something that people need In recent days, a number of important Italian newspapers published surveys about confidence in Prime Minister Mario Monti. The approval rate for Monti seems to be about 50 per cent, the lowest figure recorded throughout …
By Ali Shariat When the electoral victories of Ennahda in Tunisia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Eygpt were announced, commentators were quick to question whether the hard fought democracies would be lost. This fear was catalysed not because they did not wish to pursue the establishment of democratic institutions, it was because both these parties …
By Martina Cicakova. The Slovak population seems to have awakened this year after a long time of ostensible hibernation. Slovakia, a small state situated in the heart of Europe, has in the last two months become a stage of intensive political activity on a level that has been compared to the Velvet Revolution in November …
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