Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Samuel Starko, Forrest Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia View of the Pacific Ocean from Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island, B.C., in August 2020. (Unsplash/Amanda Batchelor) More than a decade since the start of the longest ocean warming event ever recorded,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Anne Cordier, Professeure des Universités en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, Université de Lorraine Teenagers can seem to have their phones glued to their hands – yet they won’t answer them when they ring. This scenario, which is all too familiar to many parents,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Robert J. Gordon, Emeritus Professor, University of Vermont and Research Associate, University of the Free State The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the genocide of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Abdifatah Ismael Tahir, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Around 98 million children and youth in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school, accounting for nearly 40% of the global out-of-school population. This is disproportionately high, considering that the region accounts for roughly 15%…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies, Dickinson College Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon’s Druze minority, speaks in Beirut on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Bilal Hussein Violence continues several weeks after clashes started between armed Bedouin clans, Sunni jihadist groups and Druze fighters…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By David B. Sarwer, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University Limiting the amount of physical contact in training can reduce young players’ head injury risks, research shows. Mint Images RF via Getty Images On July 28, 2025, a 27-year-old gunman entered a New York…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Helen Colby, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Indiana University Have you ever noticed a sign in a doctor’s office saying that you may have to pay extra insurance costs if you discuss additional problems with your physician? If so, you’re not alone. As health care spending…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Susan L. Cutter, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute, University of South Carolina FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Scientists used pharmaceutical waste to create a new material with interesting properties. Mitrija/iStock via Getty Images Today, approximately 1,800,000 acres of land in the United States is used for landfill waste disposal. In terms…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Murugan Anandarajan, Professor of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems, Drexel University More than 150 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority buses across Philadelphia are equipped with cameras that detect vehicles blocking bus lanes. Han Zheng via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority piloted a…