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Palestine Perceived as a Hypothetical Twin of the Irish Republicans

On May 26th Ireland became the first European Union member state to officially declare that when Israel is building settlements in Palestinian territories, it is committing a de facto annexation. European countries are quite willing to criticise ...

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10.06.2021

SNP: National But Not Quite Pro-European

Elections in Scotland last week were declared by the winning Scottish National Party, which secured the fourth victory in a row, as a historic. Even though one seat short of an absolute majority, together with the Scottish ...

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11.05.2021

Why Is Western Sahara Losing Recognitions?

Even though decolonisation is widely associated with the second half of the 20th century, it is not yet an issue of the past. The struggle for self-determination in the Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro areas, better ...

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04.04.2021

Diaspora Politics on Abkhazia: Involved in Half Capacity

President Aslan Bzhania had an important meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on November 12, 2020. With the ongoing global pandemic and subsequent collapse of the tourism sector paired with an energy crisis, Abkhazia has been facing difficult ...

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22.03.2021

Complete Separation Is Not What Transnistrians Voted for in 1989-1990

When I started my PhD almost 4 years ago, I wanted to explore the internal dynamics of Transnistria’s secession movement. From what I had read up to that point, it was clear that Russia’s involvement in the ...

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14.03.2021

Is Russia Winning the Second Karabakh War?

During the 44-day conflict in and around the de facto state of Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR), Russia played a noticeably passive role. The Kremlin, in an agreement to protect Armenia, felt no need to intervene because Azerbaijan did not ...

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28.02.2021

International Recognition for Northern Cyprus: Much Ado About Nothing?

When the Turkish Cypriots elected their president in October 2020, they were not simply choosing a figurehead for the next five years, but rather a vision for the future of Northern Cyprus. As the chief negotiator in ...

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10.02.2021

U.S. Recognition of Moroccan Claims to Western Sahara: Mixed Consequences and a Diagnosis

On 10 December 2020 outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. recognised Moroccans claims to sovereignty over Western Sahara. Mixed consequences will likely follow Trump’s proclamation. The decision has already led to impacts on the ...

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18.01.2021

Overview of 2020: Separatism, Non-recognition, and Borders in a Pandemic

For most states, 2020, the year of the pandemic, was a challenging one. The role that borders and international relations have had in the last decades was turned upside-down in 2020 as states tried to stop the ...

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04.01.2021

The Different Manifestations of Territorial Partition in South Africa

The state of South Africa was established in 1910 after four British colonies (two of which had previously been independent Boer republics) agreed to form a union with the blessing of their imperial overlord. The Union of ...

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06.12.2020