Pauline Werner

Dear President-Elect Trump, You’re wrong. You may have calculated correctly that the Rust Belt’s resentment would turn the election. You were right that social media would turn popular opinion into fact and smear campaigns into…
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Dating back to the Cold War era, US national security objectives have played a strong part in deciding US state action in Latin American countries – a dynamic that was shifted instead of turned around as the threat of communism waned…
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This article is a continuation a piece published on 20 November 2015 which can be found here. Three and half months ago, Donald Trump had not won a single primary. The Republican establishment had still been assuring itself, despite…
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On December 31, Israel’s education ministry confirmed that it had banned Dorit Rabinyan’s novel Borderlife from high school curriculums. The book, the winner of Israel’s prestigious Bernstein literary prize, recounts the love story of a…
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The United Nations is under pressure from both local and global organizations leading up to a General Assembly Special Session (or an UNGASS) in 2016. The Special Session will focus on state drug policy, specifically on achieving the goals…
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On the surface, European and American democracies don’t have very much in common. European Union (EU) states predominantly have parliamentary constitutions and proportional electoral systems, while the US is famous for its two-party system…
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