By Janine Mendes-Franco
The outcome of the 2024 American presidential election has Caribbean netizens wondering about what Trump's upcoming second term in office might mean for things like immigration, trade, tourism, and climate cooperation.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House is mostly bad news for Anthony Albanese and his government, already facing a challenging 2025 election year.
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By Waya Quiviger, Professor of Practice of Gobal Governance and Development, IE University
After an unprecedented political comeback and sweeping victory, Donald Trump will soon be the 47th US president, the first in over 120 years to win a second non-consecutive term. He is also the first convicted felon and twice-impeached president to be re-elected.
But historic firsts aside, what does this mean for Europe, and how can EU countries prepare for four more years of Trump? During his last term, Trump was no…
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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…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Listen to The Conversation Weekly for an interview with gang expert Dennis Rodgers, and Gaz, a former gang leader from Sierra Leone.
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By Katie Pruszynski, PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
The result in Georgia was less of a knife-edge than had been predicted – the reasons for this are embedded in the state’s difficult history.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The flag of Uganda. © 2018 Press Association via AP Images This week, Uganda’s appeals court is set to hear an important case on a government hospital’s use of seclusion and restraints on people with psychosocial disabilities.In 2015, Benon Kabale, a human rights and mental health care reform activist, together with the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), sued the government for restraining and keeping people with psychosocial disabilities in seclusion rooms in mental health facilities. They urged the court to declare this treatment a violation of fundamental…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the government plans to publish the secret section of the Robodebt royal commission report, although it is not clear when it will do so.
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By Mike Rosenberg, Professor of the Practice of Management of Strategic Management, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections, Europe now has to prepare for a new era of economic protectionism. Trump’s policies during a second term will undoubtedly have major consequences for the continent’s economy, geopolitical stability and progress addressing climate change, and may even threaten the future of globalisation itself.
The stakes are high for Europe. Beyond decades of political and cultural cooperation, the European Union and US have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, which, at its peak in 2021, reached
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The COP29 stand at Baku Boulevard in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 28, 2024. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images (Berlin) – Governments participating in the 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) should urgently commit to drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, including by immediately and fairly phasing out of fossil fuels, Human Rights Watch said today. The climate conference will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024.“Governments preparing their national climate plans should ensure that they are consistent…
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