My blog about politics, society and the world in general. For more info, write to me via [email protected]
5 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Mine Ban Convention and the EU Commission’s uneasy silence signals a breakdown in global humanitarian cooperation. Instead of real security, governments are turning to outdated, destructive tools like landmines that...
23 Oct 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR The latest study from the University of Gothenburg reveals that Swedish parliamentarians are among the most satisfied with their representative democracy in the world. Despite many mentions and warnings about polarization and democratic erosion,...
17 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
This text is based on analysis by Duncan Depledge in The Conversation and my reflections also published in Swedish via Tidningen Global. TLDR: War and climate change have become as two sides of the same coin. Drawing on analysis by Duncan Depledge...
5 Sep 2025 1 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR A May 2025 investigation in +972 Magazine by Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv (“Render it unusable: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction”) documents how Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has gone beyond targeting Hamas. Bulldozers, expl...
17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
When I think about my childhood in Bosnia during the 1990s and early 2000s, one word sometimes comes to my mind: Proleter. It was the name “everyone” in my birthplace town Teslić used for our local football club. In the late 1990s, I was about ten y...
25 Jul 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In his essay “Why Not A World Parliament To Govern The Planet Earth?”, P. Soma Palan argues that nation-states and international institutions, such as the UN, are structurally incapable of solving global crises, including war, climate change,...
21 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
📝 TLDR The Carnegie Endowment’s July 2025 paper by Carothers, Kleinfeld, and Youngs presents a clear warning that international democracy support is in crisis. Major disruptions, especially under Trump in the U.S., have gutted funding and dismant...
20 Jul 2025 2 minute read 10 comments Vladan Lausevic
In a recent piece for Liberal Currents, Gary T. Gunnels reviews Quinn Slobodian’s provocative new book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025). The article, titled “The Bastards of Mont Pèlerin,” offers a disturb...
14 Jul 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In the late 1990s, the Serbian youth-led movement Otpor! used humor and satire to destabilize Slobodan Milosevic’s authoritarian regime. By creating absurd, symbolic actions such as placing a barrel with Milosevic’s face in public and in...
12 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR UN peacekeeping operations are having serious problems, according to recent analysis by Andreas Karlsson at the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute. The sudden end of the MINUSMA mission in Mali and the scaling down of other operations reveal...
