#Blog Posts

      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 …

      On November 29, 2020, parliamentary and local government elections will be held in Transnistria. Following the elections, 33 deputies of the Supreme Council and 895 members of village, district and city councils, as well as heads of …

      While the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict seems to currently dominate public debates on de facto states, the recent presidential elections in Northern Cyprus (TRNC) may portend the escalation of tensions over yet another resilient de facto state whose …

      On October 11, eleven men will face off in the presidential election of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). This will be the 10th presidential election for the Turkish Cypriots since 1974, when military coup d’etat …

      On 12 July 1998, Christian Karembeu added a FIFA World Cup trophy to his already impressive collection of awards. He was part of France’s winning team, which included several players from the former French colonial empire, and …

      Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has not been recognized by any UN member state, including Armenia. There have been some rumors about Uruguay’s willingness to recognize NKR’s independence as well as Tuvalu’s intentions to establish diplomatic relations. So far, …

     We live at times when the amount of information useful for analysis exceeds our human capacities to analyse it directly. But our technological ingenuity helps us out. There are tools that can automatically collect texts from online sources …

     Iraqi Kurdistan is a complicated place. We cannot drink the tap water, women cannot walk down the street alone without being harassed, but if you want to look like Kim Kardashian you are free to inject fillers into …

      On July 1, 2020, Somaliland and Taiwan formally announced a bilateral accord which will see Somaliland open a representative office in Taipei and Taiwan open a representative office in Hargeisa. Interestingly, in its official statement announcing the …

      All states have their iconographies and rituals designed to project their legitimacy and power. They organize space as sacred patrimony and time as memory, anniversary and the eternal. Presidential inaugurations are occasions where we see this process …