sovereignty – HUMANOLOGY

HEGEL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – IS THE WEST DOOMED TO WALK ALONE?

This piece is based off an article written by Tomáš Korda, where he directs his theories on the question: “Is the West doomed to walk alone?” on the realist and progressive philosophical views of Hegel. As a ethics philosopher myself and a student counsellor and administrator for our IR courses here in Geneva, I feelContinue reading “HEGEL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – IS THE WEST DOOMED TO WALK ALONE?”

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”