Category: MIL OSI
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What was Jane Austen’s best novel? These experts think they know
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Thompson, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we’re pitting Jane Austen’s much-loved novels against each other in a battle of wit, charm and romance. Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her…
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African debt and climate change: how the ICJ’s Vanuatu ruling could be used for broader justice
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Danny Bradlow, Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria African sovereign debtors in distress face terrible choices. They are often forced to choose between fully paying their creditors and financing the needs of their populations – health, education, renewable energy, water. Discussions…
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Africa’s city planners must look to the global south for solutions: Johannesburg and São Paulo offer useful insights
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Astrid R.N. Haas, Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town For decades, the dominant theories and models in urban studies have been built from the experience of a small set of mostly western cities. Other urban contexts, particularly those in Africa, Latin…
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Why grow plants in space? They can improve how we produce food and medicine on Earth
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Troy Miller, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, The University of Western Australia ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, CC BY-ND Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get…
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Taylor Swift is engaged. She’s been getting her fans ready for this moment for 20 years
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Sarah Scales, PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology taylorswift/Instagram Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have announced their engagement, posting on Instagram images of the proposal with the caption “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting…
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I’m a woman approaching middle age, do I need to get my hormones checked?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Susan Davis, Chair of Women’s Health, Monash University If you’re a woman approaching middle age and you’re on social media, you might have been urged to get your hormones checked. These posts often highlight troubling symptoms of perimenopause. Then they flag blood tests as a…
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Trump’s push to fire Fed governor threatens central bank independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Ana Carolina Garriga, Professor. Department of Government, University of Essex The fate of Lisa Cook, who is fighting attempts by President Donald Trump to remove her from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, has huge implications for a keystone of good economic policy: central bank…
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Trump’s attempted firing of Fed governor threatens central bank independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ana Carolina Garriga, Professor. Department of Government, University of Essex The fate of Lisa Cook, who is fighting attempts by President Donald Trump to remove her from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, has huge implications for a keystone of good economic policy: central bank independence.…
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Droughts don’t just dry up water — they drain livelihoods and weaken local economies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By S. Mehmet Ozsoy, Assistant Professor of Finance, Concordia University Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and markets because they unfold more slowly. Their gradual…
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US and Israel push to end UN peacekeeping mandate in south Lebanon risks regional chaos
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Vanessa Newby, Senior Lecturer, Politics & International Relations, Monash University The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many as an essential peacekeeping buffer between Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah. But Israeli pressure, US doubts over Unifil’s cost-effectiveness and the fragile state of Lebanon’s…