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Canada has been considered a human rights champion when it comes to accepting Syrian refugees. So why is it doing next to nothing for those fleeing Venezuela?
South Africa needs to make life as uncomfortable as possible for members of Zimbabwe’s government.
As the US excludes nations from the established system, China is offering them an alternative. And America will pay the price.
Trump has called Venezuela a ‘human tragedy’ and threatened invasion while quietly deporting and denying asylum to Venezuelan refugees. His anti-socialist rhetoric may make for good midterm politics.
As Iran struggles under another round of international sanctions, a widening social gap is putting President Hassan Rouhani’s government under pressure.
Qatar’s decision to aid Turkey in the face of American sanctions against the country may finally be a snub too far for its close relationship with the US.
US sanctions announced earlier this month may have triggered the plunge in the lira, but the government has been mismanaging Turkey’s economy for years, creating severe vulnerabilities.
American policymakers and lawmakers are floating unilateral sanctions against Russia, Iran and even Turkey in an effort to change behavior. But research shows sanctions only work in narrow circumstances.
Eighty years ago, we were just as scared of the Japanese buying our assets as we are of the Chinese today. So what does this say about the future of Australia in the Asia-Pacific region?
South Africa’s relations with the US could sour under President Trump.
It largely depends on whether Europe will decide to ignore (and pay the price for) US sanctions.
Many contracts have been ended in cases of war or changes in the law. But government action making a contract more expensive does not mean it will be terminated.
The international community should set bright line rules on appropriate responses to cyber attacks before an expansive reading of the “self-defense” clause triggers war.
The UK is pointing the finger at Russia for the nerve agent attack on a former spy. How should the government react?
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
The charges against a Sydney man for allegedly acting as an ‘economic agent’ for North Korea are set against the background of recent tougher UN sanctions against the rogue nation.
The latest salvo of insults and threats between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim brought the region a little bit closer to war. China, North Korea’s closest trading partner, may be the only way out.
Are harsher measures to squeeze North Korea’s population worth it? Everything we know about sanctions says probably not.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So what went wrong?
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
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Professor of IPE, Director of City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), City St George's, University of London
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Professor Emeritus, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Old Dominion University
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Teaching Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Doctorante en histoire des relations internationales, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in International Relations, University of Sussex