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    Cosmos and Conflict: The Russian-Ukrainian War and Global Space Partnership
    The Pendulum
    • May 10
    • 5 min

    Cosmos and Conflict: The Russian-Ukrainian War and Global Space Partnership

    Mary Grace Nimmer On July 15, 1975, the world witnessed the success of the first international space partnership, the Apollo-Soyuz Test...
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    Inside Putin’s mind: Moscow’s Motives Explained
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 27
    • 4 min

    Inside Putin’s mind: Moscow’s Motives Explained

    Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer As discussed in part one of this series, Putin has repeatedly denounced and denied Ukraine’s independent...
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    A Spoiled Brotherhood: A Historical Look into Russia’s and Ukraine’s Relationship
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 14
    • 4 min

    A Spoiled Brotherhood: A Historical Look into Russia’s and Ukraine’s Relationship

    Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roots which existed before February 24, 2022, before the invasion of...
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    A Silent Battle: Sexual Violence within Militaries Around the World
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 8
    • 4 min

    A Silent Battle: Sexual Violence within Militaries Around the World

    Ava Barros In the United States military alone, one in four service women report being sexually assaulted by a fellow service member, and...
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    The Nihilistic Nutcracker: How Ballet’s Roots Confound Modern Political Issues
    The Pendulum
    • Mar 1
    • 5 min

    The Nihilistic Nutcracker: How Ballet’s Roots Confound Modern Political Issues

    Clara Noble As the holiday season winds to a close, the last of the Christmas trees find homes on snow banks and curbsides and holiday...
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    Putin’s Gamble: The Ukraine Crisis and How it Started
    The Pendulum
    • Jan 31
    • 4 min

    Putin’s Gamble: The Ukraine Crisis and How it Started

    Gavin Hunt It’s the night of January 21st in Ukraine as a Boeing 747 cargo plane lands and begins slowly taxiing to its parking zone....
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    Moscow or Bust
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    Moscow or Bust

    Clara Noble Russia—a hulking mass of nature, history, and people—can be understood through St. Petersburg’s recent explosion of modernism...
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    Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Aftermath of Atrocity
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 14, 2021
    • 4 min

    Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Aftermath of Atrocity

    Mary Grace Nimmer In the past several decades, both Azerbaijanis and Armenians have called Nagorno-Karabakh home. In 1992, shortly after...
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    Sick Man of Europe: The Potential of Italexit
    The Pendulum
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 3 min

    Sick Man of Europe: The Potential of Italexit

    Della Maggio Despite the importance of the relationship between Italy and European Union (EU), tension between these two entities has...
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    An Act of Backpedaling: Italy’s Migration Policy in the Era of COVID-19
    The Pendulum
    • Aug 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    An Act of Backpedaling: Italy’s Migration Policy in the Era of COVID-19

    Della Maggio In 2018 and 2019, the previous Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, introduced and pushed through parliament...
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    Imperialism: An Inside Look
    The Pendulum
    • Jan 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    Imperialism: An Inside Look

    Josephine Rohrer Imperialism, while seemingly embedded only in the past, has lasting effects on the world and remains relevant in...
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    Gender Equality and Welfare States: Denmark and the United States, a case study
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 7, 2019
    • 7 min

    Gender Equality and Welfare States: Denmark and the United States, a case study

    Aynsley Hartney Introduction Rome. Washington D.C. Sydney. Johannesburg. Copenhagen. These are just a few of the many women’s marches...
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    Putin's Georgian Scheme
    The Pendulum
    • Oct 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Putin's Georgian Scheme

    Austin Schlueter The recent decision by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament to allow a member of Russia’s legislature, the Duma, to...
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    A Fragile Baltic Balance
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Fragile Baltic Balance

    Olivia Loew After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Baltic States struggled to rebuild their societies and economies while...
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    Emmanuel Macron's Neon Siege
    The Pendulum
    • Mar 25, 2019
    • 3 min

    Emmanuel Macron's Neon Siege

    M.J. Fleck France is in the midst of an inscrutable existential crisis. For nine weekends running, gilets jaunes (yellow jacket)...
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    Island Prison: Inside Moria, Europe's Largest Refugee Camp
    The Pendulum
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    Island Prison: Inside Moria, Europe's Largest Refugee Camp

    Ted Anastopoulo On the island of Lesvos, Greece, twenty minutes from the luxury villas of Mytilene, streets of scattered life jackets...
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    Moscow Meddling: Russian State Media and the West
    The Pendulum
    • Feb 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Moscow Meddling: Russian State Media and the West

    Austin Schlueter Though social media misinformation campaigns organized by the Russian government have penetrated our country’s political...
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    The Off-Ramp From Grexit: A Road Map to Sensible Economic Reform
    The Pendulum
    • Jun 10, 2017
    • 4 min

    The Off-Ramp From Grexit: A Road Map to Sensible Economic Reform

    We live in uncertain times. As if Brexit, a populist President in the US, and Russian hacking were not bad enough, global financial...
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    Why Slapping Sanctions On Russia Won't Work
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 4, 2015
    • 2 min

    Why Slapping Sanctions On Russia Won't Work

    In response to the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea in late February of 2014, the United States, the EU, and their allies have...
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    An Ignored Epidemic: Greenland's Suicide Crisis
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 9, 2015
    • 4 min

    An Ignored Epidemic: Greenland's Suicide Crisis

    Every Greenlander knows someone who has killed themself. Greenland’s indigenous peoples face especially high risk, with suicide occurring...
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