Most guys play soccer/ football, but (mainly among girls) field hockey is quite popular. I used to play it for quite a long time and only found out later that playing field hockey is quite unusual in other countries. I have also refrained from calling it just ‘hockey’ to ‘field
Month: March 2021
YNTR – March 2021: On Jammu and Kashmir, West Guinea, and Western Sahara
ASIA Jammu and Kashmir crackdown In the Jammu and Kashmir region––a region administered by India, as a state which consists of the larger part of Kashmir and has been the subject of dispute among India, Pakistan, and China since 1947––the methods of enforcing the revocation of the regions special status
Model United Nations – A game with an impact
I first came across the Model United Nations (MUN) as a child when I was watching Northern American television shows for children. It was something American children did on TV: like prom, but for politics. I did not understand it, and I never got the chance to take part in
The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020(1): Can it change the way the Olympics Games are held in the future?
The coronavirus pandemic has seen many events either postponed or cancelled. The most globally known event by far would be the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo which was originally scheduled from 22 July to 9 August. The global sporting event is now rescheduled to be held from 23 July to
The #strajkkobiet phenomenon
The #strajkkobiet phenomenon in Poland is made up of two sides. The first can be grossly defined as the hundreds of thousands of women protesting and demanding unencumbered access to legal abortion, and the Government vehemently trying – and ultimately succeeding – to restrict this particular right. How is the
The Politics of Video Games
Many in the gaming industry have gone to great lengths to declare their products “apolitical”. A strangely reactive defense of a genre that has long sought to be accepted as an art form—few would deny that novels, movies, photography, all other art forms are inherently political. It’s not impossible to
The Battle of the Grandmasters
Whilst reading a newspaper, one will often stumble upon catchy headlines such as “What Is the End Game of US-China Competition?” (The Diplomat), “Russian lawmaker on US-China power game: Don’t play us ‘as a card’” (Nikkei Asia) or “Erdogan’s great game: The Turkish problem on the EU’s doorstep” (The Financial