01.12.2025
International Cultural Relations: A Blueprint for the EU’s Global Role

The US and China use culture to assert dominance. Can the EU be different? Mafalda Dâmaso thinks so.

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01.12.2025
Soft Power, Hard Control: Culture in Communist China 

Laurence Vandewalle breaks down the history of Chinese cultural soft power.

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23.10.2025
Dead Rivers and Vanishing Villages: China’s Rush for Serbia’s Minerals

As foreign investors rush to claim a share of Serbia’s natural resources, Serbia’s sovereignty and autonomy are on the line.

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12.06.2025
Snapshots: Informed Anger, Joyous Resistance, Nostalgia

What is the political power of emotions in the battle over freedom?

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30.01.2025
“America First” 2.0: What Next for Taiwan?

What does the future hold for Taiwan as a second Trump presidency ensures renewed isolationism?

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14.10.2024
Building a Resilient Europe: Rethinking Capital, Industry, and Trade 

Why is Europe’s economic sovereignty under threat and what needs to be addressed to strengthen it?

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03.10.2024
The Brussels Economic Consensus is Shifting

How will the EU’s changing economic policies affect the fight against the climate crisis and Europe’s role in it?

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15.05.2024
A Changing World: EU, USA, China

The EU-US-China relationship has undergone major shifts since the last European elections. This year’s elections will alter it again.

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14.06.2022
Connecting Student Housing With the Struggle for Democracy in Hungary

After the Hungarian government abandoned a student housing project for a Fudan campus, young people refused to let it die quietly.

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03.03.2022
Russia’s Partnership with China is the Sign of a New World

Since Russia has been looking east to lessen its dependence on the West, how much will EU and US sanctions hurt?

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