On Sept. 8, 2022, the longest reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away, leaving the future of the monarchy in a vulnerable state. The institution of the British monarchy dates back to the ninth century AD with Saxon King Echbert, the ...
Italy and the Continental Double Standard: Breach of EU Asylum Policy
At first glance, Italy seems to view its governments the way that teenage girls view outfits on their Instagram feed: they must be changed every post, and are never to be repeated. No other explanation is immediately apparent, considering that Italy has h ...
The Fire Waiting for a Match: Ethiopia’s Civil War
Most nations in Africa are multi-ethnic today because the state boundaries were arbitrarily drawn up in the Berlin Conference of 1884. Ethnicities refer to tribal identity, language, cultural history and other factors that unite a peoples. Ethiopia is dif ...
The Never-Happening Change: Why Israel is having its Fourth Election
Elections are often a tumultuous time in any country. An election that seems to never end, however, drums up a lot of unrest. Throw in a pandemic in the middle, and suddenly, Israel’s political crisis is more dire than ever. Israel’s political system i ...
Canary in a Coal Mine: Germany’s Democratic Warning Mechanism
Over the past five years, a resurgence of far-right rhetoric in the United States and Europe has altered the political landscape in the self-proclaimed Western world. Internet activity, especially on platforms such as Facebook, has encouraged echo chamber ...
Venezeula’s Political Crisis: How Their Consitution Became a Farce
For the past two decades, the socialist party PSVU has run the Venezuelan government. Initially controlling only the executive branch, the PSUV consolidated control of the judiciary, electoral council, and now the legislative body. Since the transition fr ...