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The STEAR Digital Policy Journal

Our Digital Policy Journal is the beating heart of STEAR, publishing articles on current affairs and foreign policy opinion pieces between 1,000-1,500 words in length. We are looking for original work, offering novel insights and taking a specific and well-argued standpoint that contributes to collaborative and fruitful discussion.

We accept ad-hoc submissions as well as contributions from our regular writers. Please send your articles to our Editor-in-Chief (steareditor@gmail.com) together with a short summary of your writing and a fifty-word biography about yourself.

China’s Public Diplomacy at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Upcoming Success or Imminent Failure?

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...

Living in Pollution: Roma and Environmental Injustice

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...

Recap: In Conversation With Lord Simon McDonald, 10 July 2021

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...

Freedom to Discriminate? Religious Freedom and Non-Discrimination in Conflict in the Netherlands

Toby Zwama

Jun 30
5 min

Freedom to Discriminate? Religious Freedom and Non-Discrimination in Conflict in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is known as one of the most secularized countries in Europe, as well as a leader in LGBT-inclusion (CBS, 2020). It may...

Europe and Indonesia at Odds: The Ongoing Debate over the European Union’s Palm Oil Legislation

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...

Pollution and Religion: India’s Environmental Dilemma

Nicola Crowe

Jun 10
5 min

Pollution and Religion: India’s Environmental Dilemma

As a region with deep spiritual connections to the natural world and high vulnerability to the effects of climate change, South Asia is...

Singapore: Green Urban Leader and Sustainability Success

Krista Tammila

Jun 5
5 min

Singapore: Green Urban Leader and Sustainability Success

If you have visited Singapore, you understand that even though it is a metropolis, there is plenty of greenery and nature interwoven into...

Youth Diplomacy in ASEAN: Bridging the Socio-Cultural Divide

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...

‘Catching Up’ or Reinvention?: Redefining Think Tanks in the 21st Century

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...