In een uitgebreid interview ontvouwt Trump zijn plannen voor een tweede termijn. Naar alle maatstaven zijn ze radicaal - dat ziet hijzelf net zo. Lees Time:

In deze podcast bespreken Beatrice de Graaf en Daniel Byman diens boek 'Spreading Hate, The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism', over hoe het terrorisme van witte suprematisten veranderde en welke politieke invloed dit heeft

(Intro door yours truly)
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Een mooi stuk van Bas Kromhout in Trouw over 4 mei. Eindeloos verbreden van herdenking kan niet. Breng het terug tot de kern én universele waarden en laat iedereen in gedachten herdenken wie die wil.

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Historische strips in Frankrijk: prachtig genre, dat in Nederland helaas nauwelijks bestaat

Volgens @BeatricedeGraaf moeten instituties en reguleringen het geschreeuw en wangedrag in de politiek aanpakken. 'Andere Europese landen kijken inmiddels met verbijstering naar wat politici en partijen in Nederland zich allemaal kunnen veroorloven.' buff.ly/3UG7PO8

What defines how we commemorate? On May 4, historian Lorena De Vita will reflect on the politics of memory and forgetting in our time, and how it is affected by the remembrance of WWII.

More info / signing up: sg.uu.nl/agenda/2024/re… 🕊️

#studiumgenerale #utrecht Humanities Utrecht

In a World Economic Forum meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that 'Israel has the right to complete security, and Palestine has the right to self-determination and an independent state.'

Hamas and Netanyahu worked together for 15 years…

It’s easy to focus on the tedious side of Brussels and take European values for granted when you are on the inside. But change your angle and it’s a whole different story. Georgia is really the best advertisment for the power, the appeal and the promise of Europe.

Found a new motto for the sword of X👇🏼

Well, well, well. So it was Anthony Blunt who is likely to have been the spy who foiled Operation Market Garden, led to 17,000 Allied deaths and left Berlin & Eastern Germany to fall to Russia. Can we have no more romanticising of the Cambridge spies pls?
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Explosive title of this weeks’ edition of Germany’s most influential weekly magazine:
'Traitors. How the AfD works for Russia and China'

27 April 1815, Napoleon orders Comte d’Erlon to move his corps HQ from Lille to Valenciennes, and to bring in his outlying garrisons from Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne.

The first moves of concentrating the troops of the future Armée du Nord had begun. 1/

The irony of Hamas’s willingness now to accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders after wasting three decades and thousands of Palestinian lives, only to come full circle back to what the PLO/Palestinian Authority was working towards during the Oslo Peace Process in the…

Van Bas Heijne

Herinnering: dinsdag 7 mei organiseren we de slotconferentie van ons onderzoeksproject ‘Blueprints of Hope’ (2016-2023) Utrecht University. We zien ernaar uit onze opgedane inzichten in de spannende beginfase van de Europese samenwerking te delen. Meld je nu aan! securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/04/08/clo…

💭Yesterday, Insight Monitor released its analysis of ISIL's activities in South Africa. A critical read for understanding the ISIL threat environment and network in the region. Check it out:

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