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International Affairs

As the Israeli left looks to be heading towards yet another disastrous election, former 2011 Tent Protest leader Yonatan Levi reflects on the heritage of that historic mobilization: where has all that energy, and political demands, gone?

International Affairs
A thousand unknowns of the Tunisian vote
Federica Zoja 13 September 2019

Political fragmentation, socio-economic despair and the return of foreign fighters: who will prevail in Tunisia’s unique “double election”?
International Affairs
Moldova: A divided nation
Andrea Walton 9 September 2019

On the edge of the most prosperous part of Europe, the Republic of Moldova is nonetheless one of the poorest countries of the Old Continent. Crushed between Romania and Ukraine, the country is experiencing a severe and ongoing political, economic and social crisis.
International Affairs
Kashmir simmers under India’s siege
Maria Tavernini 28 August 2019

Kashmir has been buried under a thick silence. Local newspapers’ websites were last updated on August 4th while reporters had to transport their articles and photos out of the state on USBs, and many got their footages deleted. The government claims everything is under control and going back to “normal”, while pharmacies are running out of medicines due to the curfew and ban on movements.
International Affairs
Looking for a “different” India: the Congress’ dilemmas after Rahul Gandhi
Maria Tavernini 31 July 2019

Two months after Rahul Gandhi first offered to resign, the Indian National Congress is still staring at political uncertainty. After a second, humiliating defeat in general elections, the party desperately needs a new strategy, narrative, and leader.
International Affairs
Zelensky’s magic moment: a new era for Ukraine?
Andrea Walton 18 July 2019

In parliamentary elections taking place on July 21st, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky aims at winning an absolute majority with his TV-born Servant of the People party. If he succeeds, he may shape new domestic and foreign policies for the country.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Let Morsi be forgotten. The suffocation of Egypt’s oppositions
Federica Zoja 9 July 2019

Journalists, trade unionists, intellectuals, students, professionals active in the corporations of their category: the list of those arrested and those who could be shortly gets longer. So much that in its recent report on the opposition in Egypt, Amnesty International does not hesitate to define the North African country as “an open-air prison”.
International Affairs
Cold wind across the Alps: Franco–Italian rivalry and the Europeanization of political competition
Camilla Pagani 1 July 2019

2019 will be remembered as a peculiar and unpredictable year in the bilateral relations of Italy and France. Last February, French Ambassador Christian Masset was recalled from Rome to Paris after months of tensions. Quai d’Orsay officials defined the crisis as “unprecedented”, a rupture on a scale not seen since the Second World War.
International Affairs
Essay – The CFA franc: A “hyper-colonial” Currency
Nicoletta Fagiolo 20 June 2019

The CFA franc is linked to a history of extreme colonial violence and should by now be part of the past, and therefore of numismatics, and lie in a memorabilia museum like the one on the apartheid era of comic actor and fervent activist Pieter-Dirk Uys.
International Affairs, Society
Bolsonaro against Brazilian Education
Renan William dos Santos , Luiz Vicente Justino Jácomo 12 June 2019

Bolsonaro’s new Ministry of Education has spearheaded the anti-intellectualism advanced by the president. Since his election campaign took shape, President Bolsonaro’s persecution and revanchist attitude towards universities and academics have intensified the political division in Brazil.