International Recognition for Northern Cyprus: Much Ado About Nothing? When the Turkish Cypriots elected their president in October 2020, they were not simply choosing a figurehead for the next five years, but rather a vision for the future of Northern Cyprus. As the chief negotiator in … #Blog Posts 10.02.2021
U.S. Recognition of Moroccan Claims to Western Sahara: Mixed Consequences and a Diagnosis On 10 December 2020 outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. recognised Moroccans claims to sovereignty over Western Sahara. Mixed consequences will likely follow Trump’s proclamation. The decision has already led to impacts on the … #Blog Posts 18.01.2021
Overview of 2020: Separatism, Non-recognition, and Borders in a Pandemic For most states, 2020, the year of the pandemic, was a challenging one. The role that borders and international relations have had in the last decades was turned upside-down in 2020 as states tried to stop the … #Blog Posts 04.01.2021
The Different Manifestations of Territorial Partition in South Africa The state of South Africa was established in 1910 after four British colonies (two of which had previously been independent Boer republics) agreed to form a union with the blessing of their imperial overlord. The Union of … #Blog Posts 06.12.2020
How Big Business Attempts to Hijack the Popular Vote to the Supreme Council of Transnistria in 2020 On November 29, 2020, parliamentary and local government elections will be held in Transnistria. Following the elections, 33 deputies of the Supreme Council and 895 members of village, district and city councils, as well as heads of … #Blog Posts 23.11.2020
Déjà-vu or ‘Walking Towards a New Future’? Northern Cyprus After the October 2020 Presidential Elections While the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict seems to currently dominate public debates on de facto states, the recent presidential elections in Northern Cyprus (TRNC) may portend the escalation of tensions over yet another resilient de facto state whose … #Blog Posts 09.11.2020
Presidential Elections in Northern Cyprus: The Same Old Candidates, the Same Old Issues and Solutions on Offer On October 11, eleven men will face off in the presidential election of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). This will be the 10th presidential election for the Turkish Cypriots since 1974, when military coup d’etat … #Blog Posts 08.10.2020
New Caledonia on Its Way to Independence: Third Times’s the Charm? On 12 July 1998, Christian Karembeu added a FIFA World Cup trophy to his already impressive collection of awards. He was part of France’s winning team, which included several players from the former French colonial empire, and … #Blog Posts 07.10.2020
Will Armenia Recognize the Independence of Nagorno-Karabakh? Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has not been recognized by any UN member state, including Armenia. There have been some rumors about Uruguay’s willingness to recognize NKR’s independence as well as Tuvalu’s intentions to establish diplomatic relations. So far, … #Blog Posts 01.10.2020
The Conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine in Kremlin’s Transcripts We live at times when the amount of information useful for analysis exceeds our human capacities to analyse it directly. But our technological ingenuity helps us out. There are tools that can automatically collect texts from online sources … #Blog Posts 24.09.2020
