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Private military and security companies are increasingly being contracted in Africa. But there are big gaps in understanding their impact.
Turkey’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was handed a big defeat recently when his party’s candidate lost a crucial election contest. Is this the beginning of Erdogan’s demise?
The National Intelligence Council works inside government but is little understood outside. Yet it has helped respond to almost all the major foreign policy challenges of the last 40 years.
Organizations try to hide mistakes and evade responsibility, studies show. But two scholars analyzing militant and terrorist groups say they are willing to acknowledge their mistakes – sometimes.
A scholar analyzed data about UNESCO World Heritage sites to explain why European cultural relics like Notre Dame are so beloved, while splendid monuments elsewhere remain relatively unknown.
Ennigaldi-Nanna is largely unknown in the modern day. But in 530BC, this Mesopotamian priestess worked to arrange and label various artefacts in the world’s first museum.
Its defeat in Syria may now give way to new dangers.
A new study looks at obituaries of private military contractors killed at war. The majority are white men with significant military experience.
The Ministry of Defence says the RAF killed or injured 4,315 enemy fighters in Iraq and Syria over a period with only one civilian casualty. Why do other organisations have very different numbers?
Iraq beat the Islamic State. Now, its Shia government is jailing and even executing all suspected terrorists – most of them Sunni Muslims. The clampdown may inflame a centuries-old sectarian divide.
Protests seem contagious when they erupt in several countries at the same time. But new research shows that unrest rarely spreads. It’s protest symbols, like France’s yellow vests, that go global.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
The first President Bush had some impressive foreign policies wins, but could he be best remembered for getting the US entangled in Iraq?
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
An unprecedented onslaught from the US hasn’t destroyed the terrorist organization. What is the secret of its resilience?
New research shows that refugees in regional Queensland have found it very easy to make friends and feel safe and comfortable raising children in their communities.
When the U.S. broke away from the “mother country,” the dream was to let the common good overruled selfish and private interests. Yet the federal government is arranged so this can never occur.
The question is no longer how to repel all threats. Instead, it’s how can we organise ourselves as a society to remain ourselves in the face of these multiple threats.
What’s needed is a comprehensive international strategy to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Translation Studies, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Sessional Academic, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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