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Culture & Language · International Studies

Winter vacation film and music tips

Crashing on the couch after the semester, but what to watch? Check the film tips from your lecturers at International Studies. [scroll down for music]

Culture & Language · International Studies

Winter vacation reading tips

What are you reading these Christmas holidays? Check the tips from your lecturers at International Studies and (ask Santa to) order at your local bookstore!

Politics · Systems of belief & religion

“Not the end of fascism but an extremely important moment for us”

Politics · International order & disorder

Having Conversations in Occupied Palestine and Fortress Europe

Social Justice & Human Rights · Technology & Society

Covid-19 and labour: Workers are set to pay the price of the pandemic

Shakespeare once wrote “the web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together”. In the book The Great Leveler, Walter Scheidel claims that violence has historically reduced economic inequality, and catastrophes are therefore somehow a historical human necessity since the Stone Age.

Economics

Crisis begets crisis? Assessing the crisis response in the EU

Crisis begets opportunity, they say. But looking at how the EU member states have responded to the economic fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, one might wonder whether the crisis response will beget another crisis.