Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex Just over a year ago, riots swept across parts of the UK following the murder of three schoolgirls in Southport. In 2011, the police killing of Mark Duggan led to five nights of rioting that left five…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University COVID was one of the common respiratory infections shown to re-awaken breast cancer cells. MIA Studio/ Shutterstock The worry that breast cancer may someday return is a troubling source of anxiety for many survivors of the disease.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adrian Palmer, Professor of Marketing, University of Reading The queue for a view at Iguazu Falls in Brazil. Thiago B Trevisan/Shutterstock Tourism is not always welcomed by the people who actually live in the places so many of us want to visit. Big crowds can bring…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation This article was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email newsletter. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. The latest news out of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jennifer Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko recently called for an end to what she called the western “colonial model” of interference in Ukraine’s domestic politics. In a speech to the Ukrainian parliament in July, she welcomed the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Yaron Peleg, Kennedy-Leigh Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge When the Zionist movement began to gather pace a century ago, many Jewish supporters wanted not just to create a political state for themselves, but to initiate a cultural revolution that would forge a new…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Neil Glasser, Professor of Physical Geography, Aberystwyth University Glaciar Perito Moreno was once considered a rarity: one of Patagonia’s only stable glaciers. But scientists have found the glacier is now in sudden and probably irreversible retreat – and this collapse is a warning for the world’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sara Gibbings, Lecturer, Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol As the roar of the Lionesses’ victory at the Euros quietens to a mere purr, there can be little doubt that women’s football is entering a new era for representation on both big and small…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Deborah Dunn-Walters, Professor of Immunology, University of Surrey Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects. Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marcel Plichta, PhD Candidate in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews Donald Trump appears to be making another attempt to organise a three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to end the Russian invasion. Putin’s reluctance to meet his Ukrainian…