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Quinlan Rijks
- 4 days ago
- 10 min
China’s Public Diplomacy at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Upcoming Success or Imminent Failure?
0. The Relevance of Sports in Diplomacy: A Legacy Dating Back to Antiquity Sport has long fulfilled an important role in politics, both...
Stewart Knights
- Jul 26
- 3 min
Recap: Cultural Launch Event - Reviving Crossways
What we learn shapes who we are. However, precisely what we learn often depends on where we learn. So we, as separate societies learning...
Toby Zwama
- Jul 12
- 7 min
Living in Pollution: Roma and Environmental Injustice
No working sanitation, denied access to water and living in a landfill; this is the reality for many Romani people living in Central and...
Jedidja van Boven
- Jul 11
- 3 min
Recap: In Conversation With Lord Simon McDonald, 10 July 2021
The STEAR Board is happy and honored to have been able to host today’s event with Lord Simon McDonald! We were very pleased to see 50...
Veronica Burgstaller
- Jul 6
- 5 min
Promoting Climate Action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Interview with Olha Boiko
CAN – short for Climate Action Network – brings together civil society organizations to cooperate collectively on climate issues. This...
Kyay Mon
- Jul 1
- 6 min
“Learning to Build a Better Earth Than Today’s”: Japan’s Approach to Sustainability in Education
Education plays an important role in ensuring that people around the world have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to tackle sustainable...
Naletha Pangemanan
- Jun 23
- 10 min
Europe and Indonesia at Odds: The Ongoing Debate over the European Union’s Palm Oil Legislation
In the context of international trade, a trade dispute is defined as an economic conflict between countries resulting from extreme...
Nicola Crowe
- May 28
- 6 min
Youth Diplomacy in ASEAN: Bridging the Socio-Cultural Divide
While diplomacy has conventionally been conceptualised as official intergovernmental interactions, this field of international relations...
Veronica Burgstaller
- May 21
- 5 min
‘Catching Up’ or Reinvention?: Redefining Think Tanks in the 21st Century
Think tanks emerged around 100 years ago as a product of international liberalism with its desire to foster cooperation and mutual...
Jedidja van Boven
- May 7
- 4 min
Introducing MEUculture: Just do EU!
The democratic deficit is perhaps one of the most famous problems that has been plaguing the European Union and its (many) organizations...
Polina Petrova
- Apr 23
- 4 min
The EU-ASEAN Strategic Partnership: A Newly Upgraded Old Relationship
The 23rd ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) was marked by a historic event. On 1 December 2020 – inaugurating a new chapter in the...
Kerem Cankılıç
- Apr 17
- 5 min
The South China Sea Disputes: A Brief Introduction in International Law
Recent developments in the South China Sea implore us to examine the situation from both a legal perspective and an international...
Quinlan Rijks
- Mar 27
- 8 min
Five Eyes, Six Eyes, Europe’s Eyes? Europe-Five Eyes Cooperation in the Face of China
In January 2021, reports of French Naval Staff Admiral Pierre Vandier’s visit to Tokyo late last year revealed that France is engaged...