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Scott Montgomery on Trump's attack on intellectual culture. Why has the Trump Administration gone after universities, particularly the Ivy League, with such a vengeance? The…
As the fifth round of talks on 23 May in Rome showed, Washington's latest demand for "zero enrichment" collides with the Islamic Republic's insistence on maintaining its nuclear…
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies must be tied to new subsidies that raise living standards for working and poor people. The bad news on climate change is plentiful. For one,…
This is the seventh chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations'. Moffat Machiwenyika and Abass B. Isiaka unpick the mosaic nature…
This is the ninth chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by Marina…
Economic inequality is a global phenomenon. And while the data suggests that inequality between countries has fallen, inequality within countries has risen. China, for instance, a…
Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner argue that states and coalitions must soon decide whether they will become norm-takers or norm-makers. As the world moves deeper…
Amid rising geopolitical threats to democratic resilience, Robert Schuett and Susanne Schuett argue that protecting hospitals must become a core priority of both global policy and…
Robert Schuett calls out attempts by the Kremlin to instrumentalize the history and memory of World War II to justify the slaughter of Ukraine. I live and work just a short…
Should Europe embark on rearmament? Should it seek to replace the U.S. as a global power?  Political scientist/political economist, author and journalist C. J. Polychroniou…