The Analytic Hour

Political essays by Yunus Poblome

The Analytic Hour hosts my writings as a student of politics. The platform shares the name of Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic sessions of psychoanalysis.

  • The Belgian Federal Parliament – A Story of Centrifugal Federalism and Weakening Bicameralism

    This text was published as a Parliament Overview on the Parliamentary Studies Association website. Figure 1- Entrance of the Paleis der Natie/ Palais de la Nation. @Monument Heritage Brussels Belgium has been a parliamentary-constitutional state since its foundation in 1830.Between the late 19th century and the mid-20th century, it experienced gradualdemocratisation with plural male voting…

  • Het realisme is misschien een wetenschappelijke theorie, maar dat maakt het nog geen moreel ­kompas

    Dit opiniestuk werd gepubliceerd in De Morgen op 13 augsutus 2025, 03:00 Meer en meer stemmen verheffen zich tegen de lakse Europese houding ten aanzien van de mensonterende koers die Netanyahu’s Israël heeft genomen. Een van die stemmen komt van Jonathan Holslag. De professor, van wie ik tot vorig academiejaar nog les kreeg, schoof in…

  • ‘Kapalı’ versus ‘Açık,’: The Emerging Solidarity in the Headscarf Debate among Turkish Female Students

    This article was published in A Different View, the blog of the International Association of Political Science Students In recent years, polarization has become a major topic in both academic and public discourse (Bernaerts et al., 2023; Gentzkow, 2016). Driven by rising levels in the U.S. (Pew Research Center, 2014) and elsewhere, it has gained…

  • JD Vance’s international right-wing populism

    This article was written for and published in ECPR’s blog The Loop Right-wing populism has gone beyond the nation state. Analysing JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, Yunus Poblome describes how US foreign policy under Trump depicts Europe as being led by a corrupt elite which refuses to listen to its conservative…

  • Halve staatsloosheid

    De dehumanisering van Palestijnen in Israël 7 oktober 2023. Nog maar eens een datum om toe te voegen aan een lange lijst. Een lijst waarbij elke banaal lijkende combinatie van dag, maand en jaar de menselijke capaciteit tot de verwoesting van de ander symboliseert. Tientallen duizenden doden en meer dan een miljoen ontheemden in de…

Yunus Poblome

About me

I hold a BSc (cum laude) and an MSc (magna cum laude) in Political Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Currently, I am completing a MSc in International Politics from Ghent University (UGent) while interning with prof. Fabienne Bossuyt within the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES). Beside my studies, I serve on the Editorial Board of the European Relations Association where I help students and young professionals toward their first publication(s) on European affairs. Previously, I have interned with prof. Eline Severs in the REDIRECT EU Horizon project and held leadership positions in the Royal Association Olivaint Conference of Belgium and the Belgian parliamentary simulation Jeugd Parlement Jeunesse. While my interests are broad (Middle East, Populist Radical Right, Turkish Grand Strategy, History of International Relations, and so on), I am currently interested in studying the politics of outer space from a critical security studies perspective.

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