The Turkish election highlights the growing strength of Turkish opposition despite the defeat and approves of a president who could be weaker than he would like to appear.
Finale of the projet COWORKMed in Zagreb, April 2018.
COWORKMed
Saudi Arabia portrays itself as a leading supporter of humanitarian aid, especially to the Palestinians, but the country’s leadership has an ambivalent strategy towards the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Chanel is one of the brands that makes the most of Instagram.
Patrick Kovarik/AFP
Instagram is in fashion, literally. Brands use it in a variety of ways, but some still have significant room for growth. And they’re not necessarily the ones you imagine.
Pro-tolerance march in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2015.
Phil Roeder/Flickr
Diversity is an enormously appealing and powerful concept, yet it can also distract us from the focus we need to face today’s pressing social issues. So what’s the way forward?
RyanAir like most airlines ise price discrimination techniques to attract customers. Find out how.
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Benjamin Ferron, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC); Claire Oger, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC) et James C. Scott, Yale University
In an exclusive interview, Professor James Scott discusses anarchism and State resistance by so-called “powerless” actors. Excerpts for The Conversation France.
Trucks returning from Libya to Niger.
Julien Brachet
The question is no longer how to repel all threats. Instead, it’s how can we organise ourselves as a society to remain ourselves in the face of these multiple threats.
Personal data… isn’t so private after all.
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Is the impact of refugees in the host country’s economy positive or negative? The real question is really quite different: can the economy really do without refugees?
A photo taken on June 1, 2016, on the banks of the Seine.
Leighton W. Kille/The Conversation
Although it is unlikely to find a scenario similar to that of the major flood of 1910, France’s national flood forecasting network is closely monitoring the level of the Seine.
A man gets his drinking water from a Cape Town neighbourhood in 2017.
Rodger Bosch/AFP
In South Africa, Cape Town fears “Day Zero”, when the city will have to ration water drastically. The phenomenon threatens other cities as well but solutions exist.
A protest in Toulouse in January 2016 against the state of emergency in France.
Gyrostat/Wikimedia
Weakening the institutional as well as the symbolic functioning of the rule of law has the consequence of introducing new “risks”, and thus creating more insecurity.
Michel Wieviorka, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France et Randall Collins, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH)
Ten years after the publication of two major works about violence, their authors meet to discuss their theories and renew the debate.
Section of a tumor observed with an optical microscope. The two white forms with brown borders are blood vessels. Inside, gold nanoparticles accumulate against their walls.
Mariana Varna-Pannerec (ESPCI)
Gold can be used to make jewelry, but also to fight cancer. Several clinical trials are currently underway in the United States where patients are being treated with gold nanoparticles.
Heads of state attended the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, on June 9, 2018. Top row: European Council president Donald Tusk, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Bottom row: Seychelles President Danny Faure, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. US president Donald Trump’s recent protectionist moves were at the top of the agenda.
Ludovic Marin/AFP
After the G7 fiasco, it’s clear that a trade war is in the making. US justifications of “national security concerns” for its tariffs suggest a legitimate target for EU countermeasures: coal.
Cloud services are flexible, but are they secure?
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In 1954, three scientists observed a paradox to which they gave their name: the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence. Now, fibre optics are on the way to finally providing an explanation.
Professeur senior d’analyse financière, d’audit et de risk management - Directrice de Programme pour le MSc Fashion Design & Luxury Management- Responsable de la spécialisation MBA "Brand & Luxury Management", Grenoble École de Management (GEM)