Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rebecca Moosavian, Associate Professor in Law, University of Leeds The BBC is the latest media organisation to be targeted by Donald Trump’s highly litigious machine. The fallout over a Panorama episode that included a misleadingly edited clip of the US president’s January 6 2021 speech led…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Economics, Salford Business School, University of Salford Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock US president Donald Trump’s 15% baseline tariffs on EU imports may read like a throwback to old-school protectionism, designed to safeguard American jobs and manufacturing. But in today’s globalised and digitally driven economy, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University When a house mysteriously explodes in the sleepy suburbs of south Oxford and a child goes missing in the aftermath, concerned neighbour Sarah Trafford is driven to seek the truth. As an art conservator, Trafford…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Plowright, Assistant Professor in International Security, Durham University A few years ago, you might have balked if someone told you that the US president would be photographed in the White House shaking hands with a man who was a former member of al-Qaeda, an insurgent…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hala Al-Hamawi, PhD Candidate, Climate Finance, Nottingham Trent University The Middle East region, home to both oil-rich economies and fragile, conflict-affected states, remains among the most underfunded in the global climate landscape. Equitable access to international finance is essential to combat climate change, particularly in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Hess, Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies, University of Westminster Around 70-90% of museum collections around the world are kept in storage . Often housed in buildings far away from their public institution, they represent a picture of hidden cultural and historical resources. Remote storage…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Eleanor Dobson, Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, Howard Carter’s team decapitated the pharaoh, severed his limbs…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Henry Chung, Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, University of Essex Exercise is just one of the ways you can lower your biological age. TheVisualsYouNeed/ Shutterstock Society is fascinated with health, fitness and longevity. This obsession has spawned a multi-million pound industry centred around…