Review Radio: Revisiting the Arab Spring
So often we learn about mass movements and revolutions from a top-down perspective and rarely do we hear from people who lived through them. In this episode of Review Radio, MIR Podcaster Victoria Aponte revisits Tunisia's experience of the…
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Érosion de l’État de droit en Europe de l’Est : les valeurs européennes en péril
Pour mettre un terme à cet opportunisme économique grandissant de la part de certains pays membres et asseoir sa légitimité, l’exécutif européen envisage alors des solutions radicales telles que la conditionnalité des fonds européens en…
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US Elections Podcast Series: Can Anyone Stop Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders has officially won the popular vote in the first three contests of the Democratic Primaries. Is he on his way to the nomination? MIR Writer Sara Parker, Editor Rebecka Eriksdotter Pieder and Editor-in-Chief Alec Regino…
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Reconciling Defence and Development in Canada’s North
Improving Canada’s Northern policy could prove to kill two birds with one stone: helping both to improve daily life for those who live there as well as consolidating Canada’s position as a defensive northern power in the face of rising…
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America: A Suffocating Democracy
The United States, a model plutocracy! (Originally published in French on February 13, 2020).
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A Canadian Take on the Democratic Primaries
Canadian and American democracies are fundamentally different, but these differences extend far beyond our respective structures of government and electoral processes. As I quickly learned while in New Hampshire, the American political…
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Crisis and Continuation: India’s Citizenship Amendment Act Protests
Although analysts have remarked that the international community’s tepid response to India’s ongoing citizenship crisis has been informed by the country’s position as a potential democratic counterweight to China, the tensions polarizing…
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Antarctica in the International Political Sphere
"While the continent’s natural resources currently remain preserved and untouched, they face the potential for exploitation. Major powers such as the United States and China will surely turn to Antarctica for their resource needs in an age…
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Once Power, Now Peril? The Legacy of Protests in Iran
The current regime would do well to remember that ignoring the needs of the citizens in favour of ideological cohesion is not sustainable. Changes in government structure grow out of discontented masses, and the Islamic Republic may prove…
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Opinion | Cyclical Poverty and Class Solidarity in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
Bong's cinematography is famous for condemning capitalism while portraying layers of vulnerability and exploitation. Many of these themes are present throughout the movie. Above all, "Parasite" was a realistic lesson on the importance of…
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