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America appears as divided over key aspects of foreign policy as it is at home. So how does President-elect Trump hope to handle that divide, and what will be the major issues facing him?
Can Hillary Clinton, as a woman president, make a difference to Egyptian women? Her former views on democratisation in Egypt leave doubt int the minds of local observers.
The 49 Palestinian Israelis murdered by soldiers in 1956 deserve to be officially remembered.
Some countries clearly prefer one candidate over the other. But the biggest loser may be the American political process, long held up as a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
The effort to take back IS’s biggest prize in Iraq has begun at last. But there’s no shortage of other problems to deal with.
There have been efforts to include women in West Bank politics, but they’ve fallen short. Activists are trying to change things.
More needs to be done to protect women against sexual violence perpetrated in war.
Wyatt Roy took it upon himself to look for a gunfight without a cause.
World powers including Russia, the US and Turkey all have a stake in the Syrian conflict – but the networks they rely on for influence are constantly in flux.
By turns hawkish and dovish, Peres’ complicated legacy runs far deeper than the Oslo Accords.
We know how to prevent gender-based violence, and that we must respond to survivors’ needs. The challenge is in making it happen.
Tourism will have to be a key element in future peace-building and peace-keeping strategies in Syria.
The US will only take action on WMD when it suits them.
The war of words over a bombed UN convoy in Syria is just the latest in a long series of diplomatic breakdowns.
While Yemen burns, Theresa May’s government plays with words.
The interventionist foreign policy of the Gulf states is increasingly at odds with their economic security.
As a new cessation of hostilities comes into force, Russia’s influence over the Syrian conflict is deepening.
Islamic State’s call to arms against Australian targets may appear concerning in it its specificity. But it does little to change the underlying security realities the group and its supporters face.
Very few countries remain outside the world’s chemical weapons control regime. Why would Israel want to keep company with North Korea?
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
