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Nawal Abdisamad is currently a freelance journalist, podcast coordinator recording monthly episodes about social issues, current affairs and politics, freelance copy taster/backbench editor for The Sun, where she works with the backbench team of chief sub editors and editors on print and is the ‘middle man’ between the news desk and copy flow. She has also recorded a segment for Times Radio, interviewed prime ministers and senior politicians. Nawal’s primary areas of interest include foreign policy, human security, and international law.
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Oleksandra Zadesenets is an undergraduate student at the University of Glasgow, where she is pursuing a degree in International Relations. During her recent internship with the School for Policy Analysis at NaUKMA, she co-authored an analytical article on the socio-cultural aspects of the transformational processes in Ukrainian society following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which was presented at a scientific conference. Oleksandra’s research interests cover a broad range of issues that shape international landscape. She is particularly drawn to the constructivist theory of international relations, and her area of research interest encompasses democratic transformations in post-Soviet countries, competitive authoritarian regimes, post-Cold War international affairs, closed autocracies, nationalist and dissident movements, human rights and human security, R2P, cultural diplomacy, war making and peace making.
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Leo Gardner is an HSC intern and a graduate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and soon will be a Master’s student in the Intelligence and International Security programme at King’s College London. Leo has had experience working for two human trafficking charities and a social policy think tank. He has a strong interest in the open and covert actions of Russia, in particular the threat it poses to Eastern Europe. Alongside this, he is interested in the ever growing problem of disinformation and the effects it has on democracies across the globe.
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