Category: Academic Analysis
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US leaders view China as a ‘pacing threat’ − has Washington enough stamina to last the race?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College U.S. muscle or Chinese strategy — which one will prevail? Fred Lee/Getty Images When Donald Trump meets with Xi Jinping on Oct. 30, 2025, he won’t just be chatting with any run-of-the-mill leader of a rival nation.…
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The rise and fall of globalisation: battle to be top dog
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George’s, University of London A world map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY This is the first…
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4 research-backed ways to beat the winter blues in the colder months
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Gio Dolcecore, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University As winter approaches and daylight saving time is about to end, many people are bracing themselves for shorter days, colder weather and what’s often dismissed as the “winter blues.” But these seasonal shifts are more than a…
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Could tactical voting could block Reform in future elections? Lessons from the Caerphilly byelection
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thomas Lockwood, PhD Researcher in Politics, York St John University Plaid Cymru’s overwhelming victory in the recent Caerphilly Senedd byelection shattered over a century of political tradition. Lindsay Whittle took the seat with 15,691 votes. Labour, which had held the seat since it was created, came…
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China’s new controls on rare earths create challenges for the west’s plans for green tech
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham Electric cars are reliant on rare earth minerals, and most are mined in China. Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock China recently announced that it was putting new controls on the export of rare earth elements, sparking a new…
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Bugonia: why some people’s brains cling to the idea that aliens are real
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol The latest absurdist offering from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite and Poor Things, hits cinemas this week, and Bugonia promises to be another strange and rollicking masterpiece of complete, unmissable chaos. Lanthimos’s muse…
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Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alexander Baker, Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What makes Melissa so alarming isn’t just its size and strength,…
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The rise and fall of globalisation: why the world’s next financial meltdown could be much worse with the US on the sidelines
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George’s, University of London Golden Dayz/Shutterstock This is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here. Globalisation has always had its critics – but until recently, they have come mainly from the…
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Nobody Wants This: season two tries to push beyond stereotyping Jewish women, but doesn’t get very far
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sarah Godfrey, Associate Professor, School of Media, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia Nobody Wants This is a romantic comedy following an agnostic white American woman, Joanne (Kristen Bell), and “hot rabbi” Noah Roklov (Adam Brody). Falling for Noah is easy but maintaining a relationship…
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How Turkey is cracking down on the media
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Massimo D’Angelo, Research Associate in the Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Loughborough University Hakan Tosun, a 50 year-old Turkish journalist, died on October 13 three days after he was assaulted in a street attack in Istanbul. Two people have been arrested. The motive for the…