Category: Analysis
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As Netanyahu moves toward full takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a crisis of international credibility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University; Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia For all its claims of being a democracy that adheres to international law and the rules of war,…
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South Africa’s earliest newspapers made money from slavery: book offers new evidence
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Gawie Botma, Associate Professor of Journalism, Stellenbosch University In a recently published book, Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press (2025 Routledge), author and journalism professor Gawie Botma explores the gap in the country’s understanding about the complicity of South…
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3 reasons Republicans’ redistricting power grab might backfire
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Charlie Hunt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University Texas state lawmakers board a bus following a press conference at the DuPage County Democratic Party headquarters in Carol Stream, Ill., on Aug. 3, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images The gerrymandering drama in Texas – and beyond…
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Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hamed Rajabi, Director of Mechanical Intelligence (MI) Research Group, London South Bank University Time for a rethink? Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution…
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A new global ruling shows states are legally responsible for tackling climate change
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Amelia Hadfield, Founding Director, Centre for Britain and Europe, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Surrey mentalmind/Shutterstock Sovereign states are not only responsible for tackling fossil fuel damage, they have to make redress, according to a recent ground-breaking ruling by the International Court of…
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Donald Trump to chair new Olympic taskforce in bid to allay international visitor concerns ahead of 2028 Los Angeles Games
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Hargy, Visiting Research Fellow in International Studies, Queen’s University Belfast The US president, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on August 5 to set up a government taskforce to manage the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. During the White House announcement, Trump said: “We’ll…
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Trump’s tariffs have finally kicked in, so what happens next?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maha Rafi Atal, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow Donald Trump’s new international trade tariffs have landed. Some are lower than others, some deals have been done, but overall they are the highest they have been…
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The key to a centenarian’s long life may be their superhuman ability to avoid disease – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Karin Modig, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet Cenntenarians had lower rates of disease throughout their life overall. Lysenko Andrii/ Shutterstock Humans may be living longer on average these days, but, even so, only a fraction of us will live to see our 100th birthday. Yet the…
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Why Jane Austen’s leading men are such enduringly popular heartthrobs
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Louise Curran, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Birmingham In Ang Lee’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995), the handsome cad Willoughby (played by Greg Wise) rescues Marianne (Kate Winslet) on horseback in the middle of a raging storm. Pathetic fallacy has rarely looked…
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Horror, beauty and reframing colonial histories – what to watch, see and read this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation I do love a good, proper horror film that puts a bony, creepy hand of unease on your shoulder. With a strange mystery and growing sense of distrust at its heart, Weapons appears to be just that…