“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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Coffee Extinction Is Nature’s Way of Telling Us: “Heal the World!”
The coffee farmer, who provided the beans for my coffee, meanwhile fights a battle for survival – her crop was…
India Makes the Lives of Kashmiri Prisoners Worse During COVID19
Indian government has a moral obligation to grant Kashmiri prisoners their long-deserved freedom.
The Myth of Miatsum: Armenia Stuck between the Past and Reality on the Ground
Attempts to establish the “Third Armenian Republic” have failed after the 2020 Karabakh War. It’s now time for Armenians to…
European Foreign Fighters and Their Children Are in Limbo
Will Europe bring the children of its Daesh members back home?
The Great Reconfiguration of Global Supply Chains
As the blurriness of geopolitical, economic, and security alliances fades, countries are likely to find themselves dependent on the supply…
India and Pakistan: Are the Two Rivals Becoming Friends?
Even though India and Pakistan occasionally show goodwill to improve ties, lack of trust remains as the biggest obstacle to…
The Great Turan: Russia’s Concerns about Turkey’s Growing Reputation in Caucasus and Central Asia
Russian experts admit that the Great Turan project is gaining popularity in the Turkic-speaking world, profoundly amplified by Turkey’s military successes and…
The Politics of Sighting the Crescent Moon in the Muslim World
For the first time in history, Muslims have found themselves in a node of modernization, transnational sectarian networks, and state…
What the Return of Mercenaries Means for the World Politics
There is good news. Mercenaries are as old as war, yet the world did not devolve into anarchy, as is…
Vaccine Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Bargaining
During a pandemic, crisis-driven vaccine diplomacy can become the core element of international relations and international cooperation.
An Axis of Evil: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military Regime
China and Russia are enabling and protecting the criminal regime in Myanmar that resorts to terrorism against its own people.
Russia-Ukraine Crisis: War at the Door or Another Russian Roar?
The Donbass crisis is a test of NATO’s deterrence capacity and capabilities. The quicker Washington starts accepting multipolar realities, the…
What Black Deaths in Custody Has To Do With White Privilege in Australia
We need people’s movements such as BLM to march and demonstrate on the stolen ground never ceded that First Nations…
Sheikh Jarrah and the Mass Expulsion of Palestinians in Jerusalem – Politics Today Editorial
Politics Today believes that the only way forward is to grant the Palestinians their full rights on their land and…
France’s Endless War in the Sahel
The question is what brings France to the Sahel region, thousands of kilometers away from its borders.
Diplomatic Expulsion: Resurgence of A Cold-War Era Norm?
While diplomatic expulsion is not necessarily a new norm in international relations, expelling diplomats for solidarity’s sake is growing fast.
“False peace only postpones conflict”: An Interview with Danny Morrison of the Bobby Sands Trust
Peace is the objective, but false peace only postpones conflict and often makes the subsequent conflict much worse.
Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms Talk
While Russia currently provides India with 49 percent of its military imports, its closer ties with Pakistan, along with China’s…
