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Experts agree that Turkey is even further polarised after contested unofficial results show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has won the right to expand his powers.
China is now the world’s second-largest international investor. Should the US and Europe be scared?
Turkey’s referendum could lead to a tremendous change in the country’s political development, leading to an extremely autocratic regime.
New findings make it hard to imagine a more important goal for solar system exploration than searching for microbial life in Enceladus’ internal sea.
It is vital for people to demand transparency, but when popular outrage is manipulated for political purposes, democracy suffers.
Robots are strange creatures, and not only because they might steal our jobs. We humans actually have good reason to be a little worried about these machines.
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of disasters in the near future, leveraging social media data, crowd-sourcing and other means of discovering the unknown will become crucial.
There’s a need for new anti-malarial agents due to some malaria drugs becoming ineffective in the fight against the disease.
Sea cows (Sirenia) descended from four legged mammals that roamed Africa when this continent was isolated. They belong to the Afrotheria, the ‘African beasts’.
Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.
French Guineans are up in arms about the territory’s overcrowded hospitals. Why is no one talking about how racism and xenophobia also affect access to health care?
The recent American airstrike in Syria has created a new norm in international law sanctioning the unilateral use of force to punish those who deploy chemical weapons against their own people.
US-Russia relations have hit their roughest patch since the Cold War. What’s in store for the Trump administration’s first official visit to Moscow?
Videos of a United passenger being involuntarily dragged off a plane went viral, creating a PR disaster for the company – one that could have easily been avoided.
How do you teach empathy? Can it be in a way that foregrounds ancient, indigenous knowledge and practices? Design thinking might hold the answers.
The case of a 12-year-old Costa Rican girl, who was raped by her father and denied an abortion, is dividing a nation that prides itself on its human rights record.
The focus of food production systems, including aquaculture, must move beyond maximising yields to consider nutritional quality too.
Facebook has agreed to remove 85% of content to respect Pakistan crusade against ‘blasphemy’, leading the way to a whole new era of censorship on freedom of thought.
The treaty to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been exceptionally successful. Only nine states have them. Now, efforts are underway to completely rid the world of them.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, University College Dublin
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore
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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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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
