Articles

Opinion – Japan’s 3/11: Ten Years On

Giorgio Shani • Mar 12 2021 • Articles

Aside from the insecurity and panic caused by the nuclear crisis with its concomitant effects on an economy still reeling from two decades of stagnant growth, life has returned to normal for most.

Subsidiarity and Social Europe

Rosa Mulé • Mar 12 2021 • Articles

it is vital that the European Commission finds new imaginative solutions for a more balanced interaction between national and supranational activities in the social domain.

Global Migration and Local Integration: The European Refugee Crisis

Jörg Dürrschmidt • Mar 11 2021 • Articles

As a consequence of societal globalisation, there is an ongoing process similar to the ‘unbinding of politics’ in the context of EU migration and asylum policy.

How Taiwan Tacitly Promotes its National Security Agenda

Since the emergence of COVID-19 and Tsai’s reelection in 2020, the major theme focused more on the importance of self-defense rather than directly belaboring China.

Lingering Effects of the UK’s Brexit Role Change

Juliet Kaarbo, Ryan Beasley and Kai Oppermann • Mar 10 2021 • Articles

While the UK has been casting for multiple roles (such as Global Britain), some of these roles are in conflict with each other and many international actors have rejected them.

Identity and Foreign Policy: Competing Narratives in Swedish State Autobiographies

Nico Edwards • Mar 10 2021 • Articles

Proponents of arms exports ultimately succeeded in ensuring that Wallström’s feminist foreign policy wouldn’t realise its professed intentions.

The Subsidiarity Principle at the Interface of Law and Politics

Thilo Marauhn and Daniel Mengeler • Mar 10 2021 • Articles

Subsidiarity reminds us of the fact that law is not a hermetically sealed system cut off from society, but that it is always linked to other systems such as politics.

High Stakes for Media and Expression with Myanmar Coup

Gayathry Venkiteswaran • Mar 9 2021 • Articles

The circumstances in which the public and the media find themselves today are different from prior years. The 2020 election results were an overwhelming endorsement for military-free governance.

Looking Back on ASEAN and Sino-US Rivalry in the Cold War

Wen-Qing Ngoei • Mar 9 2021 • Articles

ASEAN countries have front row seats to the Sino-US rivalry, though perhaps their say in regional affairs has increased from the Cold War years.

The Political Philosophy of European Subsidiarity

Peter Rinderle • Mar 9 2021 • Articles

Subsidiarity can help to prevent the exercise of tyrannical power of the central government and protect a sphere of liberty in the smaller units of a community.

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