How does a newborn country of 1.8 million inhabitants, struggling to be recognized by many, prepare for a future within the EU? According to Dhurata Hoxha, Kosovo’s Minister of European integration, the only future for Kosovo is a Euro-Atlantic one – in which Kosovo is strongly embedded in the institutional frameworks of NATO and the […]

A historical journey in times of war and peace. Manuel Marin students are simulating the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. “This system is somewhat novel.  Our desire in asking you to proceed thus is to save time.  All the nations represented here are free to present their claims.”[1] With these words Prime Minister of France, Georges

Post-Soviet countries, and Armenia is no exception, are rough and vibrant places, full of intense paradoxes, humour, micro-aggression, and beauty. All of the fifteen former Soviet states, each with its own cultural and socioeconomic components, have been grappling with the ghost of the Soviet Union in different ways. The fall of the statues of Lenin and

  As Georgia endeavors to join the European market by signing [1] the DCFTA as part of its Association Agreement with the EU, new opportunities for political and economic cooperation await. For Georgia, the penultimate goal of this trade agreement is to boost its economic growth by accessing one of the most advanced market economies

  Movies are powerful tools in the battle for hearts and minds. Could they become an effective weapon in this century’s new information wars?    I never thought that I would ever need to be reminded about the war on the territory of my country, Ukraine. However, living far from the area of military activities

European identity is not based on external borders, which have been changing throughout history. But if boundaries are not a strong basis for understanding identities, then what is Europe? And what is “European identity”?   Before discussing European identity, we first need to have a common definition of Europe itself, which will serve as the