The first hundred days of any American Presidency are traditionally analysed for indications of the policy priorities of the new administration. American President Joe Biden’s first three months in office understandably largely focused on the American response to the Coronavirus pandemic. However, diplomats and scholars have highlighted some advances from President Biden, a long-time ardent…

Rasmus S. Søndergaard, Danish Institute for International Studies The Trump administration will not be remembered for its commitment to human rights but it did oversee an attempt to dramatically redefine the U.S. government’s conceptualization of human rights. In doing so it followed the path of several previous administrations, including the Reagan administration, which formulated a…

Revisiting the Spanish Question: The Netherlands, Spain and the United Nations during the early Cold War, 1945-1950 Dr. Stefanie F. M. Massink, Utrecht University s.f.m.massink@uu.nl In 2020, the United Nations (UN) celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Netherlands was one of the 51 states that joined the multilateral organization from the start in 1945. In the…