Academic(ish)
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Automation and Worker Displacement: A rudimentary consideration of the“AI Boom”
By Nico Mastrangelo While a liberal economic view accounts for constant progress and economic growth over time, workers in the modern era remain frustrated with seemingly increasing wealth inequality.¹ While economic outputs have invariably grown since the digital revolution², and time spent at work has somewhat decreased,³ Worker wages adjusted for purchasing power, seem to…
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Central Asia: Between National Identities and Economic Dependencies
By Dilzhan Kaiypova Despite differences in language, religion, and culture overall, the USSR had been very successful in constructing a common identity that is well preserved in the minds of the people even after more than thirty years of its dissolution. As a prominent element of this identity, Russian is still spoken, especially by the…
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The Failed Revolution? On the Human Rights Situation in Belarus in 2023
By Alicia Tremel The images of the peaceful protests by Belarusians following the presidential election in August 2020 went around the world. The nationwide demonstrations were led by women, notably the trio of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria Kalesnikava and Veranika Tsepkala and were characterized by impressive symbols. Women in white dresses carrying red flowers or the…
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How the Georgian Civil Society Taught Us The Power of Will
By Ruxandra Ceangu On the 14th and the 22nd of February 2023, a radical faction in the Georgian Parliament, formed by ex-members of the ruling Georgian Dream party, proposed two versions of the “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” bill, which requires that nongovernmental organizations, print, internet, and broadcast media must register with the Justice Ministry…
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The Effects of Social Media on Interpersonal Relationships and Perceptions of Others.
In our modern society, one of the main ways, if not the primary way, people interact with others is through the use of social media. Through social media such as FaceBook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and many others, we can choose how we present ourselves to others in a manner that we have much more control…
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Hungary for Energy : Ceangu Ruxandra
Even before the 24th of February 2022, the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic put European countries under strain. After the outbreak of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, followed by the European Union’s sanctions packages against the Russian Federation, inflation started to surge throughout Europe. Russian oil and gas have become a stigmatized necessity,…