Cinema: from West to East, bridges and oceans
Article written by: Juliana Fernandes As the title suggests, this is an article of movie suggestions in line with others in PACTA, which you can see here and here. This time, the theme is: from…
February 2021
Between Security and Freedom – Hong Kong’s National Security Law
Article Written by: Hugo Neves “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” – in The Trial, Franz Kafta wrote about a bureaucratic trial whose obscure contours…
Japan Soft Power House
We tend to look to the Western World for references to our way of behavior, not only regarding political organization, but also in cultural terms. It is not strange to anyone that perhaps the United…
Opium in Afghanistan: causes, effects and its relation with American interventionism
Article written by: Juliana Fernandes In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and, after 10 years of resistance from Mujahedin rebels, backed by the US, was defeated. The CIA’s actions against the Soviet occupation helped…
5G’s Geopolitical Race: China, USA, Brazil – a perspective.
This article aims to set a practical assessment of the geopolitical implications of the 5G System of Telecommunications’ development in the current International Politics’ dynamic, that is the foundation of our International System. It englobes…