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.

  • Over “de” jeugd

    Een recente column1 in De Standaard door leeftijdsgenoot Mauro Michielsen heeft me aan het denken gebracht. De centrale vraag die Mauro aanhaalt betreft of jongeren zich best kunnen laten horen door zelf in de politiek te stappen. Hij laat ons weten dat hij hier zelf nog geen vaste mening over heeft. In dit korte repliekessay…

  • How masculinities give shape to international relations

    Recently I read four works in an intriguing order. I started off with Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread. This marvel of political philosophy is not only seen as Kropotkin’s Magnum Opus (along with Mutual Aid), but also regarded as a guiding text into anarchist thought. Afterwards, I read Ivan Jablonka’s recent hit The History of…

  • Ferenc Hörcher – Art and Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy

    On the 16th of November I attended a book presentation on the most recent publication of Professor Ferenc Hörcher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This being: Art and Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy. I have developed a newfound respect for the tradition of intellectual conservatism, even if I disagree with the large bulk…

  • Ideologie, hegemonie en de vrijheid van het denken

    Dit essay is geschreven voor het tijdschrift Contact dat gepubliceerd wordt door het Olivaint Genootschap van België. We horen vaak in hedendaags politiek discours dat de vrije meningsuiting wordt bedreigd. Zeker langs de reactionaire kant klinkt het alsof de “Woke-mob en de “cancelcultuur” ons allemaal de mond wil snoeren bij het fout verwoorden van een…

  • On the European Union

    This text is treated as an ongoing project and will thus be updated periodically. Therefore, it does not have a conclusion yet and ends abruptly. Ever since starting my third and final year of political science at the VUB, the EU has been an inescapable topic of discussion for me for many years now. When…

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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