Europe

In  Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new possibility of an upheaval of an old conflict might be on the horizon. With it, a threat of war and the resurfacing of an ethnic conflict buried a long time ago. Read staff writer Magdalena Kamont’s take on this here.

Civil society as a concept has been debated and defined in different ways, and by a large number of proponents, it is considered integral of a functioning democracy. In this article, Magdalena Kamont discusses civil society in the context of the shared Soviet past of Central- and Eastern Europe.

For International Students Day, Louise Nilsson writes about the current situation for Belarusian students who have peacefully protested the government.

With Angela Merkel stepping down, the German election became a question of who could take her place. Laurin Zils explains the players in the recent election and what the future may hold for the most populous country in the EU.

Magdalena Kamont explores the tangled web of migration on a less written about border- the Belarusian one, and how the migrants there are caught in a bigger political scheme.

Magdalena Kamont untangles and analyses the events and identity politics in Poland’s interior politics, highlighting their explanatory value to the recent turn to autocracy.