The Cold War provided the US with strategic and defensive advantages; some politicians also used it to push their view of what it meant to be American.
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It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
Efforts by the Solomon Islands’ government to delay its federal election and ban ships from its ports have caused international concern.
Strikes, climate change and the cost of living are among factors that will affect product availability this winter.
It’s unclear what practical purpose the drafters of South Africa’s foreign policy document envisaged it serving, and who its intended audience is.
Climate adaptation, digital transformation and geopolitical shifts are among the ‘megatrends’ Australia must navigate to thrive in the coming decades.
Scientific research done through international collaboration has boomed in the past 30 years. But recently, powerful countries are using science as a tool of politics, threatening that work.
South Africa needs a multi-pronged strategy for building peaceful, sustainable neighbourhoods, communities, and a nation where the rule of law prevails.
While Australia worries about Chinese influence, Pacific nations are more worried about climate change. By boosting climate ambition, Australia could be the region’s security partner of choice.
Biden’s suggestion that the US is prepared to intervene militarily if Taiwan was invaded was quickly walked back by White House officials.
Ideology informs foreign policy practice. Behaviour that could – for better or worse – influence individual lives.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is against allowing two Nordic countries to join NATO over what he deems their support of ‘terrorists.’ His opposition will test the alliance’s unity.
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
Not all nations have joined in a united front against Russia’s invasion. The conflict and talk of a new Cold War could reignite the nonaligned movement.
Modelling suggests Australia would lose half of its export income and one fifth of its jobs if a new “bamboo curtain” cut the economies of China, Russia and like-minded nations off from the West.
A need for enhanced presidential power, inherited from the early days of post-Communist transition, ruined any chances of compromise between Ukraine and Russia years ago.
It’s undoubtedly exciting news, but polar exploration has a poor record when it comes to diversity and we need to rethink the values and attitudes that underpin our fascination.
No state in the global community should have to earn Russia’s compliance with the law. If the rule of law is not respected, the entire global community becomes as vulnerable as Ukraine is now.
China’s policy of strategic ambiguity could allow it to mediate the conflict at an opportune time, while furthering its long-term geostrategic goals.
It’s time for organizations like the IPC to stop lamenting the intersection of sport and politics, and instead accept this well-established reality going forward.
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Outgoing Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Lecturer in International Studies, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sport Business, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
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Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
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Fellow, Saint Mary’s University
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Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State
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Professor of International and Diplomacy Studies, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University