Society

The Concept of Genocide: Definition, Debate and Application

Few terms carry the weight of genocide. It names what is widely regarded as the gravest crime in international law, and its application to a set of events changes how those events are understood, remembered and acted upon. That weight is also the source of persistent difficulty: a term that determines legal liability, shapes political...

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: 70.000 Vaccine Doses

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (hereinafter: DRC) is set to receive 70.000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the nation’s DR Congo Ebola outbreak surpasses 5.000 confirmed cases and 2.378 deaths — making it the deadliest Ebola event in the state’s recorded history. The International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision (hereinafter: ICG), which includes...

The Fragile Human: Why It Is So Difficult To Maintain Stable Human Organisation.

Political scientists, historians and also laymen interested in these fields have been puzzled as to why so many great civilisations rose to glory but also vanished just as often. When we look at the past years of our own times, whenever this might have been, we found history to be quite linear, or, at least,...

The Industrial Revolution: History and Interpretations

The industrial revolution refers to the transformation of production, work and social organisation that began in Great Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century and spread over the following century to continental Europe, North America and beyond. Its central features were the application of mechanical power to manufacturing, the concentration of work in...

Ceuta Migrant Crisis: Facts, Schengen and EU Response

The Ceuta migrant crisis escalated sharply over 30–31 July 2026 as tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta within the space of roughly two days. Spain deployed military units alongside police, local authorities requested a national emergency declaration, and Italy moved to suspend its Schengen arrangements with...

India Cockroach Protests Force Education Minister Out

India’s education minister has resigned following weeks of sustained nationwide demonstrations, marking a significant political concession by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government amid the India Cockroach protests; a youth-led movement that emerged from anger over a leaked national examination paper and has since grown into one of the largest episodes of student unrest the nation...