Category: Analysis
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Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza’s future: what a leaked plan tells us about US regional strategy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies), King’s College London The Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust (Great Trust) vision. Supplied Entire neighbourhoods in Gaza lie in ruins. Hundreds of thousands are crammed into tents, struggling for food, water and power.…
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Similarities between recharging and refuelling make the switch to electric cars an easier choice
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicole Bulawa, Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University Amani A/Shutterstock Charging your electric car for the first time can seem confusing. The whole process just isn’t very intuitive. There are different plug types and charging speeds, plus various ways of charging at home, at motorway stations or…
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After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Darling, Professor in Human Geography, Durham University Over recent weeks, the interim injunction to halt the housing of asylum seekers at the Bell hotel in Epping has thrown government plans into crisis. The Home Office has now successfully appealed this judgment but does still need…
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What owning a cat does to your brain (and theirs)
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Is oxytocin surging through their brains? Zhenny-zhenny/Shutterstock Cats may have a reputation for independence, but emerging research suggests we share a unique connection…
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Ebony and ivory: why elephants and forests rise and fall together in the Congo Basin
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations are found in…
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The digital movement that enables Indigenous people to show for themselves how the Amazon region is changing
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Carolina Machado Oliveira, Filmmaker, Senior Lecturer in Factual, Bournemouth University Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed some huge changes. “What the…
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Charlie Kirk and the politics of rhetoric and division
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Jolley, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation Republican political activist Charlie Kirk was killed as he spoke at a Utah Valley University event on September 10. Just three months earlier, Minnesotan House Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed by a masked gunman.…
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Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By John Joseph Chin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University Soon to be exchanging blinds with bars? Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters…
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‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Russell Blackford, Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle Statue of Liberty, New York. Celso Flores, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century…
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Detroit is the most challenging place in the country for people with asthma − here’s how to help kids in the Motor City breathe easier
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Rhonda Conner-Warren, Assistant Professor of Health Programs, Michigan State University Smoke and haze from a Canadian wildfire blankets downtown Detroit in August 2025. AP Photo/Ryan Sun Detroit kids 17 and under were nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than other kids…
