This blog is focussed on how narratives about ‘children as pray’ have been used and abused to target entire communities, which fell victim to religious, social or ethnic prejudices.

With the transportation revolutionin the nineteenth century infectious diseases travelled the world at an accelerated pace, and authorities used quarantines to contain, as much as possible, pandemic flows. In the 1830s, South–Eastern Europe witnessed the almost concomitant attacks of plague and cholera pandemics. This blog looks at how security measures against these transnational threats affected…

In April 1841, Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) put a stop to his grand tour of the Eastern Mediterranean. There were several routes he could follow home, the most direct and safest leading ‘via Greece and Italy’. But Andersen was inclined to follow a more tortuous and insecure route: a steam voyage from Istanbul…

This blog aims to briefly look at the institutional context in which expert knowledge was produced for serving professional diplomats at the end of World War One. It exemplifies this by looking at the situation of transboundary waterways regulated by means of international river commissions, early instances of intergovernmental organizations.

The Lipovan fishermen communities of the Danube Delta have faced geopolitical and environmental challenges, their fate is that of a local population whose human security is at stake.

In Moldova, President Igor Dodon instrumentalizes history to change the country’s political direction and counter a perceived threat to national independence.

The EU recently adopted resolutions against Russian propaganda and disinformation. Are we entering a new age of propaganda wars fought by online trolls?

As Russia, NATO, Georgia and Ukraine are currently all flexing their military muscles, the Black Sea witnesses an escalation of tensions. These tensions can only be understood as part of the region’s tormented history.

The political situation of the small post-Soviet Republic of Moldova has worsened in 2015, following disputes in the pro-European coalition that has been governing the country since 2009. This blogpost discusses the historical roots of this conflict and analyses why Moldova’s choice is such a difficult one.

By dr. Constatin Ardeleanu – The 1856 Paris Treaty internationalized the Lower Danube and by a veritable revolution in international conventional law allowed non-riparian countries to regulate and technically improve the navigation of a river where riparian states would not or could not do it. The institution entrusted to enforce the free navigation principle was…