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Maerten Beuming

Mar 21, 20235 min read

Too Weak to Spring? In the Steps of China's "Paw-Trail" After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 was one of many that foreshadowed the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Arguably often overlooked by...

Maerten Beuming

Feb 8, 20236 min read

'South China Sea Nationalism' - A Political Force for Good?

Sitting during the days when the effects of decolonisation were in full swing, the late scholar, and later the Indian Ambassador to the...

Maerten Beuming

Dec 27, 20224 min read

‘Maharlika Wealth Fund’? Or the Funneling of Wealth?

The former President/Dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, is once heard to have said: “Of what good is...

Orion Salazar

Dec 4, 20225 min read

What happened to Hong Kong?

Hong Kong has long been a cultural beacon of democracy and freedom in stark contrast to the authoritarian regime of the People’s Republic...

Laura Austin

Mar 16, 20215 min read

"Het juiste antwoord!": Een nieuw geluid in de Nederlandse Politiek

Op 2 maart 2021 organiseerde de studievereniging van de sociale wetenschappen EOS een debat met de Nederlandse politica Nicki Pouw-Verwij

Noa Bakker

Mar 5, 20215 min read

Tweede Kamer Verkiezingen: Achter de schermen bij het Kieskompas

Op 17 maart is het weer zo ver: we mogen (weer) stemmen. De Tweede Kamer verkiezingen komen eraan en de spanning hangt in de lucht. Er...

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Noa Bakker

Mar 3, 20219 min read

In conversation with: Faculty of Social Sciences Thesis Prize winners, Daniëlle & Cille

By Benjamin Koponen & Noa Bakker To many of us graduation might seem like a world away, or like it just happened yesterday. That said,...