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Review – Mrs Robinson

Mrs Robin son Directed by Aoife Kelleher, 2024 Few countries are fortunate enough to possess a working statesperson who has been its President;...

17.11.2024 20

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Martin Duffy

Observing Kashmir’s first Post-Autonomy Elections

India-administered Kashmir is the most northern portion of the Indian subcontinent. “Kashmir” derives etymologically from the Sanskrit Kashmira...

30.10.2024 50

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Review – The Red Suitcase

The Red Suitcase Directed by Cyrus Neshvad, 2022 While new Iranian filmography consistently challenge orthodoxies, “The Red Suitcase” first...

15.10.2024 30

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‘Worse Than a Dictatorship’: Rwanda’s 2024 General Election

My first-experience of Rwanda was while serving with the UN in the months after the horrific civil war and genocide of 1994. In the months preceding...

29.09.2024 30

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Review – Navalny

Navalny Directed by Daniel Roher, 2022 The tragic death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a remote Siberian labour camp compels...

19.09.2024 30

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Review – Baltimore

Baltimore: Heiress, Rebel, Revolutionary Directed by Jo e Lawlor and Christine Molloy, 2023 IR students with an interest in political conflict will...

11.09.2024 30

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Opinion – Reflecting on Hiroshima

I am back again in Japan with Japanese peace institutes, marking this most solemn of events in the global peace calendar. On 6 August 1945 Hiroshima...

09.08.2024 30

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Reflections on Mongolia’s 2024 Elections

On 28 June 2024 Mongolia conducted parliamentary elections. My service in 2024 as an international observer quickened my memories of my first time...

07.07.2024 20

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Opinion – Türkiye’s 2024 Local Elections Challenge President Erdoğan

As an election observer, in a few (admittedly) restless days I cover whole vistas of even a vast country like Türkiye. This enormous territory is as...

12.04.2024 30

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Reflections on the Troubles and the IRA in ‘The Secret Army’

The Secret Army (BBC 2024) unmasks a lost documentary from 1972 based on a book of the same name written by J Bowyer Bell – an academic and sometime...

31.03.2024 30

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Opinion – Northern Ireland’s ‘Dirty War’

The recent release of Peter Taylor’s documentary Our Dirty War : The British State and the IRA looks at those who were brutally interrogated by...

15.03.2024 30

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Review – The New United Nations

The New United Nations: International Organization in the Twenty-First Century (3rd Edition) By John Allphin Moore, Jr. and Jerry PubantzRoutledge,...

24.02.2024 30

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Opinion – Ambivalence on Ukraine’s ‘De-Communisation’ Process

On 9 December 2023 municipal workers in Kyiv dismantled the Soviet-era figure of Red Army General Mykola Shchors. The Ministry of Culture gave...

14.12.2023 20

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