All posts by "Bastian Harth"

Bastian Harth has completed a Master of Arts in Politics, Governance, and Public Policy at the University of Sheffield where his research focused on how Brexit affects economic, political, and security EU-Japan relations. Previously, he studied at the Tokyo International University in Japan where he did his Bachelor’s in International Relations. He is a foreign affairs correspondent at "The Speaker" and an opinion writer at the "Asia Times". He has also published a peer-reviewed policy brief on water grabbing, and a blog on "coffee land grabbing" as a policy analyst for the Global Policy Journal. Currently, he is a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission's Single Resolution Board.

Introduction The word governance has become a buzzword and almost like a fetish in the political sciences (Levi-Faur, 2014, p. 3); (Bevir, 2012, p. 1). It has been used in ...

Introduction Alone in the 20th century, 262 million people lost their lives by the hands of their government (Bellamy, 2013, p. 487). Human atrocities such as the genocides in Kosovo, ...

Brexit has brought the United Kingdom far away from one of its most important allies in the Indo-Pacific region: Japan. Though has it? Economically, the UK has been declining in ...