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Freak tropical-like storms are highly sensitive to climate change and as a result, could be coming soon to the Mediterranean.
Pyrrhus was said to have remarked that one more victory would leave his kingdom ‘utterly ruined.’ Some see echoes in US interventions in the Middle East.
Countries don’t just switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Each takes its own path, depending on its economy, international trade relations and government stability.
Fomenting a revolution when you have little ability to control how events play out on the ground can lead to unfavourable outcomes.
At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers held the power to declare war – not the president.
As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
It appeared that diplomacy was working, but the strikes by the US and Israel now risk destroying any chance of a peaceful resolution of this crisis.
If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy.
During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central Mediterranean.
During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central Mediterranean.
During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central Mediterranean.
During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central Mediterranean.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be imprisoned. This decision illustrates the growing independence of the judiciary and the application of the principle of equality before the law.
The creation of a parallel government risks cementing a permanent division of Sudan.
A federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained detained in another African county, Djibouti.
The situation is dire for the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants who wind up in Libya each year.
Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence against civilians in north-west Nigeria.
The country is deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines, which makes continuing violence one likely scenario.
Outside fighters are not merely mercenaries – they are participants in a deeply rooted, historically complex struggle for resources.
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Professor, Colgate University
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Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds