Tijana Mitrovic

On July 7th and 8th, the annual G-20 summit was held in Hamburg, Germany. Amid the discussion, expectedly centred on global trade and the environment, what came as a surprise was its level of debate and need for compromise. The media…
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Five Prime Ministers in six years: a figure one would not expect for a well-established and stable democracy in the Western world such as Australia. Yet in recent years, democracy in Australia has weakened. It seems as if the people's…
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On the first day of my Transylvanian history class at Trinity College Dublin, my professor asked us if anyone out of the 20 students had ever been to Transylvania, spoke Romanian or Hungarian, or could locate the province on a map. None of…
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Abortion remains a controversial topic in the West regardless of whether it is legal or not. While the United States Supreme Court Case Roe v Wade (1973) declared state laws banning or restricting first trimester abortions unconstitutional…
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New Year’s Eve in Brazil saw a warm welcome to a new year and a thankful goodbye to a year of political crisis, tensions over the Rio Olympics, and continued corruption scandals. Less than 24 hours later was the country’s deadliest jail…
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If anything, the events of the past month have demonstrated that we have entered a critical time for political parties to revamp not only their policies and values but their leadership and membership as well. This is one of the definitive…
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When Hurricane Matthew began its descent on the Haitian West Coast in the beginning of October, it seemed inevitable not to look back on the earthquake of 2010 or the storms of 2008 and wonder whether failure to effect sufficient aid would…
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