Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jessica D. Ayers, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Boise State University Friendship isn’t about a running tally of who’s doing more. miodrag ignjatovic/E+ via Getty Images Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University A shutdown of the United States federal government started on Oct. 1 after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach an agreement on the funding legislation required…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Robert Diab, Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in AI. Its ability to generate minutes of hyper-realistic footage from a few lines of text is astonishing, and has raised immediate concerns…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Elizabeth Nethery, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of British Columbia Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Rashid Seedat, Executive Director, Gauteng City-Region Observatory The “Coloured” community in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic heartland, continues to face barriers to full economic and social inclusion. Despite progress in post-apartheid South Africa, this historically oppressed community continues to experience significant socio-economic challenges. The term “Coloured”…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Ismaila Sanusi, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Computing, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, University of Eastern Finland Digital literacy is the ability to use digital tools and technologies effectively, safely and responsibly. This includes the use of smartphones and devices, navigating the internet and exploring…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Matthew Germishuizen, Postdoctoral research fellow, Mammal Research Institute Whale Unit, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria Most people are lucky to simply get a glimpse of some fragment of a whale. A subtle puff of mist over the horizon, the curve of a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Sylvain Kahn, Professeur agrégé d’histoire, docteur en géographie, européaniste au Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Sciences Po For 80 years, Europe maintained an asymmetric yet cooperative relationship with the United States. This imbalance, long accepted as the price of stability and protection, has shifted dramatically under US…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Matthew Redmond, Lecturer, Université de Lille Were these protesters in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16, 2025, inspired by Thomas Paine? Alex Brandon/AP In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Karine Coen-Sanchez, PhD candidate, Sociological and Anthropological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa In Canadian society, the narrative of multiculturalism can lean toward a “colour-blind” ideology — a comforting idea that race doesn’t matter and everyone is treated the same — even though…