Nicholas Buhne

Chances are that if you come across the term “failed state” you will find the five countries that you would expect to find, contrasted to a couple polar opposites like Finland. If there’s more than a handful of countries named, it is…
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Global newscasts and headlines rarely turn their attention to Slovakia, since low debts and steady growth in an EU state are poor pickings for the news cycle. Yet Slovakia’s election this month merits global attention for two reasons:…
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The words ‘International regulatory tax framework harmonisation’ are unlikely to spark the interest of most readers - and writers - at first sight. Few enjoy exploring the patchwork of international tax arrangements, when filling out tax…
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The 21st Conference of Parties (COP) summit held in December was, by most measures, a landmark success in climate policy – or as French President Hollande put it more grandly: “History is Here”. There have been a number of explanations…
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Is an old divide being given a new face in Europe? It can certainly seem that way when looking at the very public dissent from Central and Eastern European countries against a common EU refugee distribution system. Narratives of a…
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“Finland should think of the consequences, if it ponders joining NATO. It must ask, could joining start World War III?”. These comments did not come from an armchair pundit or a discussion question from a Political Science class on…
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This will be the first article of a series analyzing Russia's uses of hard and soft pressures to expand its sphere of interest in the Baltics, and how the world has been responding to these exhibits of Russian expansionist fantasies. Part…
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