The National Security Strategy and Americaโ€™s Evolving Global Role

Assessing International System, Great-Power Competition, and Strategic Engagement in Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.  Sebahate J. Shala The National Security Strategy outlines a recalibrated vision of the United Statesโ€™ (U.S.) role in an evolving international system, prioritizing national interests and regional stability over expansive global commitments. It signals an unequivocal retreat from traditional... Continue Reading →

Education, Truth, and Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A History of Parallel Truths

Sebahate J. Shala Despite significant progress in prosecuting war crimes and establishing judicial truth through international and domestic courts, Bosnia and Herzegovina lacks a unified curriculum systematically addressing gross human rights violations committed during the war in 1992โ€“1995. Education system remains fragmented along ethnic and administrative lines, resulting in competing or absent narratives about the... Continue Reading →

A European Army or a Strengthened EU Pillar within NATO: The Future of EU Defense ย ย 

The choice between a European army or a strengthened EU pillar within NATO has been a key dilemma for European leaders over the past decade. The decision is central to shaping the EUโ€™s strategic autonomy as it defines the blocโ€™s reliance on the U.S. through NATO versus its capacity for independent defense. While scholars offer... Continue Reading →

Biased Justice: A Perpetuating Case Against Kosovo

International justice mechanisms in Kosovo are righteously perceivedโ€”and as the data showsโ€”as biased, directed primarily against Kosovo Liberation Army in their efforts to examine war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo. UNMIK and EULEX issued 48 indictments, 16 against Albanians, 13 against Serbs and four indictments against Montenegrins, indicted 61 Albanians and 44 Serbs,... Continue Reading →

Police. Stop. Brutality. Against. Black. People!

2,216 Black Americans were killed by the police through 2013-2021 compared to 3,886 Whites and 1,365 Hispanicsโ€”representing the highest murder rate in the U.S. Black Americans represented 28% of people killed by the police in 2020 despite being only 13% of the U.S. population. Only in January 2020, the police killed 30 Blacks or one Black American every... Continue Reading →

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