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Amanda Felberg
The Foreign Policy Dilemmas of the US Administration in the Next Four Years
This Tuesday I went to see one of LSE’s public lectures entitled: ‘The Foreign Policy Dilemmas of the US Administration in the Next Four Years.’ The speaker was Professor John …
Feeble FARC
This Sunday, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will end the two-month ceasefire they set (in November of last year) without the approval of the Colombian government. The conflict, …
Gunning down the NRA
Ever since the beginning of the United States as country, guns have played a key role in its history. Enshrined in its constitution, as the second amendment, is the poignant …
Morsi’s Democratic Dictatorship
On the 30th of June 2012, Mohamed Morsi became the first democratically elected president of Egypt. Coming to power on the heels of the Arab Spring and the ousting of …
Wavering Willard
Having never been an intense follower of US politics, I surprised myself with how captivated I became over the current US elections. Perhaps it’s the perceived simplicity of a two-party …