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(White) Girl Missing: Media’s Construction of the “Missing White Women Syndrome”
[Illustration by Matilde Morri] “If there’s a missing white woman, you’re going to cover that, every day” – words of journalist Gwen Ifill which point to a fundamental issue in editorial work and journalistic news coverage. An illustrating example of what Ifill is describing could be observed just a little while ago: the tragic case of […]
Influencers’ Politics: Between Attention, Democracy and Power
[Illustration by Silvia Baccanti] In recent months, the Italian political scene has been dominated by the debates involving the approval of a law aiming at aggravating the legal penalties for discriminating and instigating crimes on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability, the so-called Zan Decree. The discussion quickly spiralled […]
Are we safer from terrorist attacks since 9/11?
[Illustration by Tommaso Bisagni] On 11 September 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda members hijacked four American commercial planes: two crashed against the Twin Towers in New York City; a third in the Pentagon area (Washington D.C) and the fourth in Pennsylvania. In this day, often known as 9/11, nearly three thousand people were killed and […]
Ankara’s bid to join PeSCo: The right thing at the wrong time?
[Illustration by Beatrice Bandiera] According to reports by German media, Turkey has recently submitted a request to join the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PeSCo) project ‘Military Mobility’ (MM). This request was reportedly met with a certain perplexity, as recently relations between several EU countries and Turkey have been far from smooth due to disagreements on […]
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border conflict: another water dispute in Central Asia
[Illustration by Matilde Morri] On 28 April clashes broke out on the border between Tajikistan’s Sughd province and Kyrgyzstan’s southern Batken province. The reason for the four-day conflict is an old water dispute between the two countries over the Golovnoi water intake facility, which splits a river – known as Ak-Suu by the Kyrgyz […]
Emerging hotspot: why you should care about the Mekong Region
[Illustration by Armadilly] The Mekong Region can be defined as the geographical area crossed by the Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia. The region surrounding the Mekong River is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world with 20,000 species of plants, 1,200 of birds, more than 1,100 of […]
Green turn for the Green Island
[Illustration by Alessia Angelini] The elections held on April 6 in Greenland may be crucial for Greenland’s future. The opposition Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) has beaten the Siumut Social Democrats who have dominated Greenlandic politics since 1979. At the heart of the election campaign consisted of the opposition to a gigantic project of rare earth and […]
Smoke and Mirrors in Turkmenistan: Democratization or Power Transition?
[Illustration by Niccolò Cedeno] On March 28, the citizens of Turkmenistan went to the polls to elect, for the first time, the members of the new upper house of Parliament. It is a novelty of these elections: until now, in fact, the Turkmen Parliament was composed of a single Chamber, which is now […]
To be or not to be? Japan’s Olympics Dilemma
[Illustration by Salvatore Giommarresi] As the summer looms closer, the Japanese government must make the final decision over whether or not it will hold the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. The occurrence of the Games, originally due to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, was put into question with the onset of […]
A reflection on the Monarchy, Monarchs and Freedom
[Illustration by Francesco Moretti] In contemporary democracies, royal families no longer play a decisive role in the affairs of the State. In Europe, for instance, monarchs have effectively become accessories of the State, exercising duties which a merely symbolic. Generally unburdened by any real legal responsibility for their actions, they often appear to […]
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