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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ENVI II Summation Speech – European Youth Parliament Turkey 2021

    This text was written as part of a week long simulation of the European Parliament at the end of which it was my task to deliver a speech. Our committee was dealing with policy solutions surrounding climate change and pollution. However dramatic as 17-year-old me tended to be, it still holds true with my current…

  • Is the end nigh?

    This text was part of an excercise for a course on International Relations Theory taught by professor Jonathan Holslag at the VUB. The task was to analyse an article1 on a decision taken by the Belgian federal government to put wind turbines in the North Sea. The discussion around climate change has become this elusive…

  • De zaak Sanda Dia : een kritische analyse en hoe we verder moeten

    De zonnige vrijdag middag dat 26 mei 2023 had kunnen zijn is door een enorme bui niet mogen wezen. De bui kwam niet in de vorm van een donderende kudde wolken, maar wel als even duister klinkend nieuws. Het proces van Sanda Dia, die al sinds 2018 aansleepte, was afgelopen. Een dag waarbij op 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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