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Author’s Note: This article focuses primarily on sexism and the disproportionate consequences of AI for women, it goes without saying that these technologies also affect other marginalised communities disproportionately. Applying a gendered lens to Global AI Governance, naturally also requires recognising and acting on this fact.  ‘The brave new world we are hurtling towards reflects …

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In Paul Cartledge’s history The Spartans, he shares a story toward the end of the age of Spartan prominence. For much of its history, Sparta had intentionally been a city without a wall: for an enemy to have reached the city of Sparta, the Spartans would have already fallen. The lack of defence encouraged Spartan …

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Today, the Western Balkans seems like a region at peace. Tourists flock to the Croatian coast while more adventurous types travel further inland to the mountains, monasteries, and rakia-filled towns of Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia. Left out of that list is the unresolved reminder of NATO’s final 20th century intervention: Kosovo-Serbia. Much of the news …

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Editor’s Note: This piece is brought to you by John McCabe, a Master’s graduate from St Andrews with a background in International Relations. Be sure to follow his work here. The shifting tides of 2025 herald fresh, rejuvenating efforts in alliance-building for the traditional European powers—and, between themselves. The catalysts are many but this year’s …

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Editor’s Note: This piece is brought to you by Vesa Shatri, a former intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Kosovo as well as a former intern with the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies. “To those who say NATO is striking at a sovereign nation without justification, I say it is Milosevic who scrapped …

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Last weekend, my phone buzzed with a message from a friend who is involved in diplomacy. It was a Facebook link to a British embassy event that was showcasing the soft power hegemony that is Paddington Bear and Tyrrell’s crisps. We have a running joke about Paddington and his influence on British diplomatic overtures; wherever …

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