by Sarah Ampolsk | Apr 29, 2019 | American University
by Sarah Ampolsk In observing the elections that have taken place on the European continent thus far in 2019, two countries stand out. The first is Slovakia, one of the four central European “Visegrad” countries, which – along with neighboring Czech...
by Selena Spencer | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
This piece argues against Francis Fukuyama’s famous piece “The End of History”. In February 1989 at the University of Chicago in room 122 of the Social Science Research Building, Francis Fukuyama gave a speech about the state of international...
by Alec Wood | Mar 19, 2019 | American University
On 26 January 2017 Alexander Van der Bellen, former party spokesman and chairman of the Greens, became the 9th president of the Federal Republic of Austria. For many, this was a sign that the political center had held. That when put under pressure, the political...
by Stiv Mucollari | Mar 10, 2019 | Suffolk University
Three decades ago students in Albania demanded change and protested the totalitarian communist regime that had ruled Albania since 1945. The student movement swelled and paralyzed the Albanian dictatorship contributing to its downfall. Reminiscent of the student...
by Daniel Abramson | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
This past week, Freedom House published its annual report on the status of democracy around the world. In the Freedom in the World report, Hungary was categorized as “partly free” for the first time....
