By Zora Simic, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney
With the re-election of Donald Trump, the sex-trafficking allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and the Gisele Pelicot case, #MeToo is in the news. Three new books reflect its key themes.
(Full Story)
|
By Gautam Jain, Senior Research Scholar in Financing the Energy Transition, Columbia University
While he hasn’t released an official plan, Trump’s playbook the last time he was in office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer clues to what’s ahead.
(Full Story)
|
By Daniel J. Mallinson, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn State
Pennsylvania was for months considered the key swing state that would decide the 2024 election. Candidates, political parties and advocacy groups spent over…
(Full Story)
|
By Amelia Hadfield, Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey
Donald Trump’s expected foreign policy towards Europe during his second term will have far-reaching, and possibly, grave consequences.
At the end of last week, journalist Nicholas Vincour suggested that the decades-long close Europe-American relationship was about to be over, whoever won the White House. And that Europeans should worry less about the presidency and “more about how Europe can hack it alone on a dangerous global stage”. Yesterday’s…
(Full Story)
|
By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
Donald Trump will return to the White House having set out his foreign policy approach for the next four years.
US voters have chosen a leader who adheres to an “America first” principle, where US interests come first, and is expected to be more isolationist than the…
(Full Story)
|
By Brian Hill, Research Director CNRS, Professor, HEC Paris and Academic Director, Inclusive Economy Center, S&O Institute, HEC Paris, HEC Paris Business School
Economists have traditionally viewed inequality through those directly affected or distant observers. But the informed-consumer perspective offers a path to reduce inequality through purchases.
(Full Story)
|
By Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
The immigration debate has long shaped political agendas in the US and Europe, often escalating in times of social or economic uncertainty. In the US election, a tough-on-immigration stance from president-elect Donald Trump, including promises of mass deportations, appears to have resonated with voters.
History shows that these policies may have initial public support, but raise other issues when executed. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s…
(Full Story)
|
By Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
Paul M. Bacon, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ has become central to foreign policy debates. But it oversimplifies geopolitical reality and fuels ideas of a ‘New Cold War’.
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth at the 77th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, in New York City, US, September 23, 2022. © 2022 Caitlin Ochs/Reuters The Mauritius government has ended its recent suspension of social media, which threatened voters’ access to information ahead of the general elections on November 10.On November 1, the Mauritius communications authority had directed internet service providers in the country to suspend access to all social media platforms until after the elections. Following swift and widespread…
(Full Story)
|
By Hong Kong Free Press
"I have always insisted on filming in Hong Kong. In fact, Hong Kong is very important to me. I think there is no soul now..."
(Full Story)
|