Adam Reichardt

Five years after the Arab Spring: a wilted flower in a destroyed field

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Five years ago, the so-called Arab Spring started in Tunisia when thousands of young people protested against Ben Ali’s regime, demanding democracy and dignity. Later on, this spring of democracy began generating small flowers in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Bahrain. Today, the only wilted flower which remains is the Tunisian one. Tunisia, which has been seen […]

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is neither progressive nor feminist

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been praised repeatedly as a feminist breakthrough. The two new protagonists from London, Daisy Ridley (who plays Rey) and John Boyega (who plays Finn), are the two characters to have most updated the franchise towards modern expectations of gender and racial equality. But, where the sequel succeeds on the racial front it stumbles in

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Breaking isolation: the Baltic States diversifying their energy supply

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The Baltic States have often been described as an “Energy island” because of their isolation from European energy networks. Until very recently, the three states were, together with Finland, 100 % dependent on gas imports from Russia as can be seen in the table below. Figure 1: Gas supplied by Russia as percentage of the

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Estonia – The little country leading the way in Cyber Security

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In 2007 Estonia became the first country to experience a large scale campaign of state-sponsored online attacks from Russia. Now, several years later, the country is the leading promoter of various cyber security initiatives at home and abroad. The cyber-attack on Estonia was more disruptive than harmful since the series of denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks caused

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