Category: Academic Analysis
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Housing asylum seekers in military barracks will be hugely expensive – and politically costly
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Melanie Griffiths, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham In an effort to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, the UK government has announced that 900 people will be moved to military sites. Though this is a small…
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Is there a Christian genocide in Nigeria? Evidence shows all faiths are under attack by terrorists
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Olayinka Ajala, Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University Terrorism and insurgency have ravaged parts of Nigeria since 2009, especially in the northern regions. Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been killed and millions have been displaced by the violence. Nigeria was…
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Can South Africa’s social grants help people make a better life? Research offers hope
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Leila Patel, Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg There is now a growing global consensus that additional measures are needed to support the agency of social protection beneficiaries. Such support will strengthen their self-sustaining livelihoods and pathways that would accelerate social and economic…
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Zohran Mamdani’s child care plan could transform New York and beyond
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Simon Black, Associate Professor of Labour Studies, Brock University Assembly member Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference on universal child care at Columbus Park Playground on Nov. 19, 2024, in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old New York State Assembly member…
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Professor Nishan Canagarajah steps down as Chair of The Conversation UK
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Waiting, Chief Executive Officer, The Conversation Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, is to step down as Chair of The Conversation Trust UK’s Board of Trustees at the end of 2025, after four years in the role. I have had the privilege…
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Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Graham G. Dodds, Professor of Political Science, Concordia University Vice President Dick Cheney appears at a Washington D.C., event in 2007. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak This is an updated version of a story that first published on Oct. 7, 2025. Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be…
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Is it ok for politicians to use AI? Survey shows where the public draws the line
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steven David Pickering, Honorary Professor, International Relations, Brunel University of London Shutterstock/aniqpixel New survey evidence from the UK and Japan shows people are open to MPs using AI as a tool, but deeply resistant to handing over democratic decisions to machines. Artificial intelligence is creeping into…
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Brazil’s upcoming UN climate summit highlights how tricky climate pledges are to keep
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hannah Hughes, Senior Lecturer International Politics and Climate Change, Aberystwyth University Belem, Brazil. Pedro Magrod/Shutterstock For two weeks during November, countries are coming together in the city of Belém in Brazil to negotiate their responses to climate change. This will be the 30th UN climate summit,…
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The case for a cancer warning on your bacon butty
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University irina2511/Shutterstock A group of scientists in the UK recently demanded that bacon and ham products carry health warnings similar to those on cigarettes. These experts argue that these meats, which are often preserved with chemicals called nitrites,…
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How China spreads authoritarian practices beyond its borders
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Giulia Sciorati, LSE Fellow in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science China’s president, Xi Jinping, during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, in 2016. Gil Corzo / Shutterstock Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections.…