When Migration Becomes Geopolitics: What the Ceuta Border Crisis Teaches Us About International Relations A border is never merely a line on a map. It is a site where history, power, identity and human lives collide. The recent crisis in Ceuta has been widely framed as a migration emergency: thousands of people attempted to crossContinue reading “WHAT THE CEUTA BOARDER CRISIS TEACHES US ABOUT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS”
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ICELAND – TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN THE EU
What does a country gain when it joins an international organisation — and what might it have to give up? A referendum taking place in Iceland offers an unusually clear window into one of the oldest and most important questions in International Relations: how much sovereignty should a state be willing to share in order toContinue reading “ICELAND – TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN THE EU”
THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS A SCHOOL CAN OFFER – NO TEACHING REQUIRED
When I was younger, 11 I think, I was at school and I remember it was a freezing cold day and we were huddled into our new classrooms for a storytime. The classrooms had just been finished and we were all excited about all the ‘new stuff’ that just had to be fiddled with, fondledContinue reading “THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS A SCHOOL CAN OFFER – NO TEACHING REQUIRED”
