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Mission Impossible? Human Rights Due Diligence in the Arms Trade Industry
Are we killing because this is the General’s order? Are we letting civilians die because we elude our conscience by telling ourselves “That is just a casualty”? Is the endgame sought in “how many killed” or are we all just too hot-blooded to end any game at all?

Runlong Li
Sep 258 min read


Mirror Politics: Power and Beauty in East Asia
Companies capitalize on our insecurities, perpetuating a cycle of consumption. These standards of self-care set for women pressure women to remain "beautiful" at any time, regardless of their career, age, and background. They keep us buying, keep us conforming, and keep beauty tightly bound to neoliberal ideas of worth and discipline within the international political economy.

Sae Shiraishi
Aug 257 min read


Vacaciones en Paz: A Sahrawi Summer That Reveals an Endless Injustice
While you were enjoying the sea breeze and the sun on your skin, those Sahrawi children were discovering a different kind of summer. One without sandstorms, without tents under scorching heat, without the daily routine of life in exile. But that relief is temporary.

Miguel García Carretero
Aug 257 min read


Are Past Biases Dominating Future Tools? Exploring How AI Reinforces Discrimination
It has become clear that there is a lack of algorithmic transparency; users cannot understand why and how AI tools generate answers or what sources they rely on. Sometimes, even developers cannot justify why some individuals are denied jobs, for example. The pressure is increasing to design and regulate AI to be accountable, fair, and transparent (Rodrigues, 2020).

Mirna Hamdan
Aug 257 min read


Geopolitics: The Missing Lens in a Fragmented World
Geopolitical literacy means more than knowing international headlines; it is the ability to connect geography, history, and political dynamics to understand why events happen and how they might evolve. It requires critical thinking to identify patterns, assess multiple perspectives, recognize bias, and interpret data and narratives objectively.

Miriam Cornejo Rodriguez
Aug 254 min read


The NATO 5 Percent Objective: A Symptom of Europe’s Security Challenge
There is no common objective of what NATO wants to achieve, be it a common military industrial production facility, increasing the efficiency of its output, or a procurement policy. Rather, Europe made itself content with pleasing the old Trumpian rhetoric, which puts ‘paying’ as the paramount metric to determine what foreign policy to implement.

Marco Dore
Jul 2511 min read


The Humanitarian Gaze: Apoliticism as a Form of Violence in Gaza
With this recent dire news on Gaza, it is important to talk about the depoliticization of the Palestinian struggle and the global narrative’s fixation on humanitarianism. What I mean by that is the consequent disregard of the issue’s initial causes, such as settler colonialism and violence.

Nour Halabi
Jul 256 min read
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