“Pull Your Car Over!” Ethnic Profiling in the Netherlands
The Dutch border police can use ethnicity as a criterion for selecting citizens for checks at the border. To the Netherlands’ court this is constitutional.
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Systemic Racism in the U.S. killed George Floyd, not Trump
Floyd is dead because American history is full of racial inequalities against African Americans from the very first day of…
Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
The danger is to mistake tokenistic gestures of racial and ethnic equality by the symbolic overthrow of bronze statues of…
The Drone Warfare Revolution Has Arrived
The genie is out of the bottle as the technology to manufacture UCAVs spreads globally, signaling the dawn of drone…
The Global Rise of the Far-Right: Future Prospects – Part III
Whether it is genocidal killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rohingya in Myanmar, or violence towards Muslims in India, these actions create a…
Coronavirus and the Shift Towards a New Cinema
Paradoxically the global lockdown could potentially create a new, more organic interest, and resurgence in the communal experience that promotional…
The Global Rise of the Far-Right: Commonalities – Part II
Watch the video to find out how extremist ideologies such as the far-right pose different levels of danger to society,…
COVID-19 and Religion: Between Nationalism and Communal Responsibility
Will COVID-19 lead to increased nationalist exclusionary and defensive attitudes among the religious, or might it be the cure that…
The Fight Against Social Inequality Is Fundamental to Defeat COVID-19
To overcome the global pandemic, it is vital to understand the sources of socioeconomic inequalities that kill more people than…
Faith, Society, Politics: How the Coronavirus is Changing the World
Across the political spectrum, this is a period of the unknown; the neo-liberal or leftist perspective that has clamored for…
New Geopolitics in a Post-Coronavirus World
All that has happened in the course of this pandemic should be a warning to all countries against any possible…
The Global Rise of the Far-Right: Emergence – Part I
Why has the far-right risen so rapidly? What is it about the political climate today that has led to this?…
Corona Is For All And There Are Lessons To Be Learnt Globally
We need a new global paradigm and modus operandi that will better equip the world to deal with such crises,…
How the UAE’s Lobbying Instrument Works Abroad
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is actively resorting to means such as lobbying to attain the power and reputation it…
Communal India: Past, Present and Future
India matters now because of its potential status as global power and player- and with that title comes more media…
The Right to Blaspheme, the Mila Case, and Islamophobia in France
Today, Islamophobia is not only the fear of Islam, but has become an explicit threat against Muslims, their lives, and…
Despite Withdrawal, Medal for Sisi Only Exposes Lack of Credibility
How was it possible to grant the Medal of St. George to Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a true dictator,…
The Story of An Impeached-Yet-Still-Winning President: Donald J. Trump
Trump won’t face any serious harm from the impeachment case, the opposite of what the Democrats had expected from the…
Old Reflexes and New Challenges for Turkish-German Relations
As long as formal and informal channels of dialogue are kept open, and a fair, reciprocal and unbiased relationship is…
