Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maud Borie, Senior Lecturer in Environment, Science & Society, King’s College London VectorMine/Shutterstock In the wake of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, green finance has been increasingly celebrated as a way to tackle environmental challenges. Banks, investment funds and insurers have rolled out a growing range…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Suspected witches kneeling before James VI in Daemonologie, his 1597 treatise on witches. Wikimedia Commons In the 16th century, witches and demons weren’t just for Halloween. People were terrified and preoccupied with them – even kings. In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lynda Yorke, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Critical Physical Geography, Bangor University Nestled between the Caerneddau mountains and the Afon (River) Conwy, the small village of Dolgarrog in north Wales looks peaceful. But the huge hydro-electric pipes that run down the hillside are a constant reminder…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Muireann McMahon, Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Product Design, University of Limerick Roman Larchikov/Shutterstock Every product we touch has a footprint. A phone, a fridge, a hospital syringe. Each begins and ends in the same place: the planet’s resources. The EU’s recent ecodesign for sustainable…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex The results of the Caerphilly Senedd byelection held on October 23 were certainly a shock to Labour and to the Conservatives, but they also cast doubt on the reliability of polling as well. It had for some…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Abi Crane, Postgraduate Researcher in Palaeontology, University of Southampton A pack of Nanotyrannus attacks a juvenile T. rex Anthony Hutchings, CC BY-NC-ND A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the T rex.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Femi Owolade, Research Associate, Sheffield Hallam University Kam Hus/shutterstock Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham China’s president, Xi Jinping, has met with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, for their first face-to-face talks in six years. Trump emerged from the meeting in South Korea in a buoyant mood, describing it as…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the country’s biggest crime gangs. It was one of the deadliest security…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Dittrich, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Nottingham Trent University Incy wincy hasn’t got time for witchcraft. thatmacroguy/Shutterstock If you’re scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn’t help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake cobwebs and horror movies depict giant spiders hunting humans or creeping around spooky…