Category: Academic Analysis

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.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franziska Weinmar, PhD Candidate, Women’s Mental Health & Brain Function, University of Tübingen This latest research may make it possible to identify those more vulnerable to perinatal depression. AnnaStills/ Shutterstock Around one in five mothers experience perinatal depression. This condition involves depressive episodes during pregnancy or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bran Nicol, Professor of English, University of Surrey Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”. Think of J. G. Ballard, Octavia E. Butler, Marshall McLuhan, or Donna Haraway. One of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jodie Raybould, Lecturer in Psychology, Coventry University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Perhaps you know someone who always deflects blame onto you. Someone who smirks when caught in a lie, who twists your words until you’re apologising for their mistakes. And over time, you may start to wonder, can someone…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sean Brophy, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University Guguart/Shutterstock In the upcoming budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to raise the minimum wage to £12.70 an hour: £26,416 annually for a full-time job. This means that the gap between salaries for minimum wage…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Benjamin Neimark, Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diane A. Rodgers, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Media & Communication, Sheffield Hallam University “Three parapsychologists lose their university funding” sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke, rather than a premise for one of the most successful films of the 1980s. Nonetheless, this is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex Dick Cheney, one of the most important figures in America’s neo-conservative movement, has died at the age of 84. Cheney had a long career in government and was considered by many as one of the…