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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been killed while … Continue reading “Gaza and Ukraine are both waiting for action”
By Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University – Newark President Donald Trump signed the wide-ranging One Big Beautiful … Continue reading “Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them?”
By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Alex Brandon/AP, Paramonov Alexander/Shutterstock, Gaza Survival Journey/Shutterstock, The Conversation https://theconversation.com/does-donald-trump-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize-we-asked-5-experts-260801 https://theconversation.com/does-donald-trump-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize-we-asked-5-experts-260801 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading “Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? We asked 5 experts”
By Nathalie Belhoste, Associate professor, EM Lyon Business School The world experienced over 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department of Peace … Continue reading “what companies can learn from Lafarge’s exit from Syria”
By Daniel H. Magilow, Professor of German, University of Tennessee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently sparked controversy by comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Nazi Germany’s notorious secret police, … Continue reading “Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky”
By Alexandre Massaux, Ph.D. in international relations, Université de Toulon Both Israel and Iran used drones in the strikes that began between the two countries in June. Israel introduced drones … Continue reading “How drones are changing the way wars are fought”
By Anna Erickson, Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology What happens when a country seeks to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program? Every peaceful program starts … Continue reading “How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out”
By Luca Trenta, Associate Professor in International Relations, Swansea University Tonya Ugoretz, a top FBI intelligence analyst, was placed on administrative leave in June. The FBI has not said why. … Continue reading “Congress has a chequered history of overseeing US intelligence and national security”
By Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University China has long maintained that it does not supply arms to any party at war – a central tenet of … Continue reading “Beijing’s ‘plausible deniability’ on arms supply is quickly becoming implausible – and could soon extend to Iran”
By Güneş Murat Tezcür, Professor and Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Arabs … Continue reading “Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad”