“Dost bolo Fica” (Enough of Fico) has been a slogan I’ve chanted countless times over the last couple of years. Standing at the Freedom Square in the center of Bratislava, surrounded by 15 thousand people, listening to speeches by students, who I would end up later fraternising with right here in Amsterdam, I believed change would come. How could it not? We protest, we vote, we “fight” against the inept leadership of Robert Fico and yet we fail. The numbers at the protests pe

Scope, power, and competing theories in contemporary international law The right of states to use force in self-defence occupies a central yet deeply contested place in contemporary international law. Enshrined in Article 51 of the  United Nations Charter  as an exception to the general prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4), self-defence has traditionally been understood as a narrowly circumscribed right exercised in response to an armed attack attributable to anoth

By Someone Who Has Seen One Too Many Self-Care Reels Modern civilization has accomplished many feats. We’ve mapped the genome, put robots on Mars, and invented 17 different versions of oat milk. But perhaps our greatest collective achievement is this: We have turned the human ego into a full-time profession. Yes, congrats to all. The 21st century is now a place where you aren’t just you—you’re a brand, a content stream, a lifestyle proposition, a delicate soufflé of insecurit