Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marika Sosnowski, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne There are jubilant scenes in both Gaza and Israel after both sides in the war have agreed to another ceasefire. If all goes well, this will be only the third ceasefire to be implemented by Israel…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies, Dickinson College The Syrian Defense Ministry was heavily damaged after airstrikes in Damascus on July 16, 2025. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed On Sept. 21, 2025, a senior U.S official boasted that an Israeli-Syrian security agreement to resolve months of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor of Franciscan Studies, Durham University Bruised by recent events, the Church of England has just entered a new era. Dame Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury is momentous. But Mullally has an enormous challenge ahead of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By John Hart, Emeritus Faculty, US government and politics specialist, Australian National University US President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the military for law enforcement duties in selected American cities is likely to end up before the US Supreme Court. If it does, the nine justices…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University […]we took the freedom of speech away. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military[…] They’re poisoning the blood of our country. Stand back and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University Can a new satellite constellation create sunlight on demand? SpaceX/Flickr, CC BY A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aled Mark Singleton, Lecturer in Human Geography, Cardiff University When the news broke in the autumn of 2023 that the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, were closing, the headlines were laced with emotion: “devastating”, “fear”, “end of an era”. For many…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Philip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics, University of Oxford Belish/Shutterstock.com For decades, ethicists have argued that lotteries could be the fairest way to decide who gets life-saving treatment when there isn’t enough to go around. Yet our research suggests that most people would rather leave the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Blanka Grzegorczyk, Senior Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge; Manchester Metropolitan University Between 2013 and 2015, Malorie Blackman was Britain’s first black children’s laureate. Her young adult series Noughts and Crosses (2001-21) at once challenges and plays with the prevailing racial ordering of western…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Whittle, University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford Tada Images/Shutterstock Some of the world’s biggest tech firms have soared in value over the last year. As AI evolves at pace, there are hopes that it will improve lives in ways that…