The Afghanistan Situation

As an Essydo Magazine reader, you are surely aware of the currently escalating situation in Afghanistan. Further, you probably tried to find insightful news sources to better grasp the situation and make sense of the conflict. Unfortunately, the available sources describe the fighting and maybe, if lucky, the history of the conflict dating back to...

Understanding the 2021 Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part I)

Undoubtedly the most discussed topic of 2021, so far, is the ongoing escalation of violence between Palestinians and Israelis. In an eruption of mutual acts of violence, the already highly explosive relationship between the two sides enters another round of hostilities. Interestingly, this event’s tension is also in large part reflected across global media outlets...

How to End a Genocide

One of the most prominent and undoubtedly the most imminent issue on the international agenda is the genocide on Uygur Turks in East Turkestan – a province in China that is also, though less commonly, known under the name Xinjiang. At first, the Chinese government imposed strong restrictions on Uygurs, increasingly denying them to freely...

Lesbos and Notre Dame

Every day, we have contact with countless pieces of information. This information reaches us through newspapers, television channels, the internet, social media or radio. On a daily basis, we have to make choices about what information we process and how we process it and these factors shape our perception of the world and our actions...

The RCEP: A Reason for Hope

November 15 marks probably the most important date of 2020 and potentially of the last couple of years. On this day, 15 Asian states signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), thus, creating the biggest free-trade zone in history – in unusual fashion via a video conference, due to the globally raging Corona pandemic. The...

Never Ending Dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean

Due to its strategic location and the geo-political and economic competition going on in the region, the Eastern Mediterranean Sea has become a region of conflict rather than cooperation among a number of actors. In fact, the fate of this region changed when oil and gas was found in the Middle East at the beginning...