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.

  • EPRS: What is the EU doing to safeguard mental health?

    “They are great blessings to have tender parents, dutiful children and to live under a just and well-ordered government.” – Seneca, On A Happy Life1 On the 9th of November 2023 the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) organised a free policy talk about the state of mental health in Europe and the EU’s involvement in…

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  • EPRS Policy Talks: What is the EU doing to help Ukraine financially?

    This was a short talk on the EU’s role in financially assisting Ukraine considering the ongoing Russian invasion. It was presented by Sebastian Clapp and Tim Peters, policy experts in the EPRS. An executive summary written by Tim Peters1 states three important aspects of EU policy on the issue. The first being that Ukraine’s recovery…

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  • Wat met woke?

    Waar rechts én links fout gaan. Woke dit, woke dat, woke hier, woke daar… Ik denk dat meeste mensen dat woord absoluut beu zijn gehoord. Toch staat de media en -vooral rechtse- retoriek er vol mee. Met dank aan -onder andere- Bart De Wever en Tom Lanoye is het onderwerp nu ook in de Belgische…

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  • Democratische(re) scholen voor een democratische(re) samenleving

    Het concept van onderwijs op een massale schaal vormt al jaren een grote bron van vragen en discussieonderwerpen voor mij. Een aantal van mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn van mijn grootvader en moeder hun verhalen over hun eigen schoolleven in het Turkije van de 20ste eeuw. Wat me vooral bijbleef van die verhalen was hoe een…

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  • The bookshop in the airport

    I recently travelled between Brussels and Istanbul as a last-minute impulsive trip to visit my grandmother. A two-way flight that I have grown quite familiar with over the years. However, I did feel that this time around I started noticing aspects of air travel that I hadn’t before. It was especially the strange environment that…

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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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