Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrea Scotti, Senior lecturer of Physical Chemistry, Lund University Whether you prefer your spaghetti al dente or soothingly soft, it can be difficult to achieve perfection at home. Many of us will have experienced our pasta disintegrating into a beige mush – particularly for gluten-free alternatives.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Tobin, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester saepul_bahri/Shutterstock This year’s UN climate summit (Cop30) in Belém, Brazil, begins with a familiar dilemma: how can we tackle a highly political, long-term problem that involves every country of the world? Governments, experts and activists have been…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rob Lawlor, Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation – not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally uneasy compromise,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Cleave, Lecturer, Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter A postcard showing farm labourers gathering for a traditional harvest tea. Author’s collection Growing up in rural Devon, I was introduced to its more remote villages, farmsteads and communities as a boy. In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Luis Angeles, Professor of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow Tariffs on imports have been at the heart of Donald Trump’s economic policy since the start of his second term in the White House. And while the president believes that tariffs will be beneficial…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University Americans voted in elections on November 4 in the first major test of whether Republicans can hold together the coalition of voters that propelled Donald Trump to the White House in November 2024. The result was…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daniel Hutton Ferris, Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Newcastle University Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, has been elected as New York City’s mayor. He became the first New York mayoral candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969, and looks set to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham Ukraine is having a tougher-than-usual time at the moment. On the frontlines, the battle of Pokrovsk is raging, and it does not look like Ukraine is winning it. Nor do things look good for the country’s energy…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Peter Urwin, Director, Centre for Employment Research, University of Westminster PeopleImages/Shutterstock The number of 16 to 24-year-olds in England who are not in education, employment or training (Neet) currently stands at nearly one million. In a recent document of proposed policy, the government has set out…