Reading time: 5 minutes Many claim that we are currently living in the age of the Second Cold War, that we are possibly experiencing a Third World War. Others suggest that we have already [ … ]
Protests and the Future of Protesting Post Covid-19
Reading time: 10 minutes In the past few years, the international scene has been widely dominated by large-scale social movements and protests. Worldwide, people have organized to demand justice, change or voice opposition against [ … ]
A New Dawn for Globalization
Reading time: 4 minutes For decades now, globalization has become a central topic of discussion in the fast-paced world. Understanding it means realizing what forces underline it and what changes this will bring. Should [ … ]
Revolutionized Leadership: A New Era in Politics
Reading time: 4 minutes Not long ago, women were judged and criticised when entering the political scene, often met with scepticism and unjustified prejudice. What the pandemic has systematically proven, however, is that female [ … ]
America, land of the free (?)
Reading time: 4 minutes The streets of Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Seattle were flooded with people demanding much-needed, fundamental change. Once again, we have been reminded of the power of free speech, of [ … ]
Oil, markets and revolution: the end of resource dependence as we know it
Reading time: 4 minutes Over the course of human history, empires have toppled and kings have risen and fallen at the feet of one of the most disputed and valued resources on our planet: [ … ]
A Digital Revolution: A New Emerging Era
Reading time: 5 minutes 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, governmental surveillance; it is as if someone was narrating a story from the future, a series of events from another reality, occurring perhaps in some [ … ]
A New World Order: Life after the pandemic
Reading time: 5 minutes The 21st century has certainly experienced a lot: the collapse of financial systems time and again, the re-consideration of national borders, the resurgence of military conflicts, the election of extreme [ … ]
Big data and healthcare: a greater challenge
Reading time: 4 minutes Big data, algorithms, statistical models and other such tools have become omnipresent concepts in our daily lives, inextricable from any field and sector of society. Their dominance has been marked [ … ]
COVID-19 Pandemic and Populism: A Marriage Story?
Reading time: 5 minutes For quite some time now, political analysts, thinkers and journalists have concerned themselves with one central question in the complicated and rapidly evolving era of politics: what is populism? After [ … ]