Indonesian President Joko Widodo talks to IMF managing director Christine Lagarde during the plenary session at the IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Nusadua, Bali, Indonesia recently.
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Films can be used to help understand international relations concepts.
Changing the times.
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From #MeToo to #RefugeesWelcome, add a hashtag and the world will listen. Shame they’re not always used for good.
Naira and her daughter, who are traveling with thousands of other immigrants from Central America, rest in Huixtla, Mexico, on Oct. 22, 2018.
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A scholar who has worked with asylum-seekers for a decade explains why the legal path to safety is challenging for the migrants currently traveling through Mexico.
Some American Indian tribes, including the Navajo Nation, have moratoriums on genetic testing.
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Why is Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test so controversial with Native American groups? Two Indigenous geneticists explain the history and science behind the debate.
American-made F-15 warplanes fly over Riyadh.
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Trump claimed that ‘we would be punishing ourselves’ by using US arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a bargaining chip over the disappearance of Khashoggi. A look at the arms trade shows why he’s wrong.
There are about 20 million college students in the U.S.
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More college students are registered to vote in the November midterm elections this year than they were in 2014, but it remains to be seen how many more will vote.
More milk from these Wisconsin dairy cows may find its way to Canada under the new trade deal.
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Canada, the US and Mexico have signed a deal to rip up the 25-year-old NAFTA and replace it with something new. But what’s actually changed?
Young people with Armenian flags protesting on the Republic Square.
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Students from former Soviet countries who study in the US or Europe are more likely to develop liberal political views.
A pop-up newsroom debunking facts and proposing real time fact-checking can change how media publish stories during specific events such as elections.
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Monitoring the spread of mis-information and dis-information during the Swedish national elections by a group of scholars and journalist could set a precedent elsewhere.
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A critical review of research into inequality shows the formula for reducing it is surprisingly simple.
Politics are creating divides in the office.
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The midterm elections have put America’s political divide front and center, increasingly invading the work space and stressing out employees.
Incumbent presidential candidate Joko Widodo (left) and his running mate, K.H. Ma'ruf Amin, wave after registering for Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election at the General Election Commission (KPU) office in Jakarta.
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This article aims to name the elephant in the room – the negative impacts of Ma'ruf’s nomination on minority groups.
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Young people raised their voices in the streets and online – but a government crackdown seeks to silence them.
Sharing their views, regardless.
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Research suggests people with a high degree of rejection sensitivity are 40% less likely to take part in political debates online.
Mexico, Canada and the United States are struggling to agree on new NAFTA terms.
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A political scientist explains why corporate lobbyists and other interest groups will thwart Trump’s efforts to strong-arm or ignore Canada.
President Donald Trump, August 30, 2018.
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Revelations about the president’s behavior in a new book and an unsigned op-ed, writes a Yale psychiatrist, support what she and mental health specialists have warned: Trump is dangerously unstable.
A person browses a Facebook page of #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident), a social media campaign opposing Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s bid for re-election next year.
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Understanding the significance of #2019ChangePresident as a game-changer in the next presidential election is crucial.
To some Liberals, Turnbull is the person who plucked the mantle of prime minister from its champion of the conservative movement – Tony Abbott.
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Collective psychology says that people behave not as individuals, but as members of a collective.
Andrew Gillum with wife R. Jai Gillum addresses supporters after winning the Democrat primary for governor.
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The mayor of Tallahassee underspent three rivals to win the state’s Democratic primary. But what awaits in the general election?
It’s hard to read the recent felling of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as anything other than an act of revenge by Tony Abbott and his closest supporters.
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The psychology of revenge and how shame and humiliation can cause chaos in Australian politics.