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The Erasmus Mundus Master's of Journalism, Media and Globalisation is a response to a growing need for journalism candidates who think and act across boundaries of nations and cultures. Mundus students combine academic theory with journalistic skills, to analyse, interpret and generate knowledge about the global changes and challenges.

Here you can read the journalistic product of the Mundus Journalism cohort 2019-2021. The articles were written in the course of the second-semester module "Analytical Journalism".

Naturally, one of the most recurring topics in this year's collection is the Coronavirus pandemic that brought the semester to an abrupt end. But there is more: From Power and Populism to Media and Culture to Gender and Sexuality the 23 stories curated on this page offer a fascinating journey through global perspectives. Enjoy!

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Coronavirus

A Friend with Many Motives?

Why India is Providing Covid-19 Aid to the Maldives

India

Aarti Bhanushali

China

Xiaoming Dou

The Geopolitics of a Pandemic

A Divergent Rationale Behind the Russian and Chinese Aid to Italy

Italy

Barbara Polin

Same Pandemic, Different Shortages

What Panic Buying Reveals About National Identity

Germany

Anne Palka

Moldova

Daria Capatina

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With the Maldives declaring a state of public health emergency to fight COVID-19, India steps up its efforts to help the island nation combat the deadly pandemic. What is the strategy behind India’s aid?

Italy has been devastated by the Coronavirus epidemic. Russia and China came to the rescue of its national health system, but good samaritans are so rare in international politics that their generosity has to be examined.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, supermarket shelves were empty – but there was a rush on different products comparing countries. The reasons tell us more about crisis resilience than it seems.

India has an unemployment crisis but what is even more alarming is the simultaneous rise in suicides in the country. Why are people reacting to unemployment by killing themselves? Experts say that there is more to these suicides than what meets the eye. Suicides among the unemployed, they are afraid, are now being both normalised and glorified. And as India, along with the rest of the world, heads towards the "Corona-recession", the situation is threatening to get worse.

Corona’s other casualties

Why in India Unemployment-Related Suicides Are Becoming as Contagious as the Virus Itself

Gaura Naithani

India

When the Narrative Overrides the Reality

Why Iran Stalled on Imposing Corona-Measures

Italy

Anna Uras

Kazakhstan

Gulden Timur

"Covidiots"?

Why Indian Travellers Evade Screening and Escape from Quarantine Centres

India

Apeksha Shetty

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The authors of this article combined their Eastern and Western backgrounds to examine Iran's late response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Rather than US sanction and religion, they argue that authoritarian regime is the key reason.

As India sought to control COVID-19 by isolating travellers returning from abroad, it faced a unique problem—people escaping from quarantine centers. Human psychology could help explain their actions.

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Power and Populism

“They Recognize Their Words in His”

André Ventura and the Populist Movement in Portugal

Germany

Franziska Martin

In Search of Lost Dignity

Why Poles continue to Support the Populist Law and Justice Party (PiS)

Poland

Aleksandra Wróbel

Guilt, Glory and Genocide

Why a Long-Awaited Apology is a Tell-Tale Sign of Dangerous Developments in Germany

Germany/ Great Britain

Lisa Ossenbrink

Natalie Beck

Germany/ Kenya

In the past, Portugal was praised as one of the few countries in Europe, that has not given ground to rightwing movements. But that changed with the newly founded party Chega. How did its founder Ventura manage to establish the first nationalist rightwing party in 45 years?

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Internationally Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party faces harsh criticism for its xenophobic, homophobic and authoritarian character. Seeking an answer to why the populists nevertheless enjoy strong support at home, unveils a deeply divided nation.