Ari Paul / 04 Aug 2026
Netanyahu Über Alles
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
It feels like only yesterday Israel advocates insisted we are free to criticise the Israeli government because they do it all the time.(...)
Bosnia
Mitchell Plitnick / 30 Jul 2026
The War Over Genocide
Israelis, Americans and Gaza
Do Israeli actions in Gaza constitute genocide?(...)
Ari Paul / 07 Jul 2026
When False is True: The New Anti-Antizionism
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Finding the perfect tweet to describe social media’s damage to collective knowledge feels futile.(...)
John Foster / 23 May 2026
Making Genocide Meaningful Again
The Never Again Ideology
If the Holocaust becomes wholly unique—an event suspended outside ordinary history—then the concept of genocide ceases to be a useful analytic tool.(...)
Chris Gunness / 18 Apr 2026
Three Vignettes About Henrietta
Henrietta Foster, 1959-2026, Part III
Working with Henrietta during the war in the former Yugoslavia illustrated time and again two of her most enduring and endearing qualities: her courage and her integrity.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 23 Nov 2023
Learning From Pristina
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 24-29 October, Part I
I worked in the former Yugoslavia as a journalist during the civil war in the 1990s.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 31 May 2023
The Better 1990s
Bettie Serveert’s Palomine
As I stumbled into the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot, the world outside the window painfully bright, I suddenly heard the voice of Bettie Serveert’s Carol van Dijk in my head: “Down under lock and key/There’s a brain tag to every secret”. I just couldn’t figure out why.(...)
Drasko Duranovic / 09 Mar 2023
The Struggle for Montenegro
Moscow’s Hybrid War
For the Kremlin, controlling Montenegro is an opportunity to have its own proxy in NATO. For Belgrade, it’s a chance to regain the territory, which declared independence in June 2006.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)