Category: MIL OSI
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Tanzania’s independence leader Julius Nyerere built a new army fit for African liberation: how he did it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University Tanzania has long enjoyed a reputation as a peaceful country. In contrast to most of its neighbours, this east African nation of 67 million people has largely avoided large-scale violence within its borders. That didn’t…
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Fela and food: how Lagos restaurants are serving up the music star’s legacy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Garhe Osiebe, Research Fellow, Rhodes University In Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial and creative capital, food is doing something unusual. It’s keeping alive the spirit of a musician. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa’s most influential artists, was the architect of Afrobeat (not to be confused with today’s Afrobeats,…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah: searching for signs of Zanzibar’s most famous writer, all I found was trinkets and tourists
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Assistant Professor, Harvard University Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah in Denmark in 2025. Hreinn Gudlaugsson/Wikimedia Commons Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of…
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Child malnutrition is a sign of conflict to come: Nigerian study links climate change, food and violence
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marina Mastrorillo, Senior Economist, CGIAR The pathway from climate change to violent conflict is not simple. There are the obvious immediate effects of global warming like water scarcity and crop failure. But beyond these, climate stress can pave the road to violence through indirect channels…
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Don’t write off the Putin-Trump summit just yet – its outcome might confound critics
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University The Alaska summit is the first time the two leaders have met face-to-face since 2019. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, Mark Schiefelbein, File Like many such confabs before it, the Aug. 15, 2025, Alaska red carpet rollout for Russian…
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After 4 years of repressive Taliban rule, Afghans are suffering in silence. Is the world still watching?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne On August 15 2021, Afghanistan’s democratic republic collapsed. As the last US and NATO troops departed the country, the Taliban swept back into power and the Afghan people braced for an uncertain future.…
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The paradox of pluralism: How college shapes students’ views of other religions
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology, Tulane University Religious pluralism means more than living around people of different faiths. Thai Noipho/iStock via Getty Images Plus Students at elite universities tend to talk a good game when it comes to religious pluralism. Many…
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Crowdfunded companies are ‘ghosting’ their investors – and getting away with it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Andrew A. Schwartz, DeMuth Chair of Business Law, University of Colorado Boulder Imagine you invest US$500 to help a startup get off the ground through investment crowdfunding. The pitch is slick, the platform feels trustworthy and the company quickly raises its target amount from hundreds…
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Exactly what is in the Ivy League deals with the Trump administration – and how they compare
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Brendan Cantwell, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University Brown University is one of the Ivy League universities that has recently made a deal with the White House to end the government’s inquiry into its treatment of Jewish students, among other practices,…
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Why rural Coloradans feel ignored − a resentment as old as America itself
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Kayla Gabehart, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Michigan Technological University Many rural Americans feel largely left out of American culture. Helen H. Richardson/Getty Images Many rural Coloradans, especially in agricultural communities, feel looked down on by their urban counterparts. One cattle rancher I spoke to put…