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Les sanctions ne font qu’aggraver un phénomène déjà bien installé dans le pays : la dégradation des conditions de travail et de l’économie nationale.
Loin d’avoir été défait, le mouvement djihadiste conserve d’importantes capacités de nuisance sur fond d’instabilité sociopolitique structurelle en Irak.
As Iran struggles under another round of international sanctions, a widening social gap is putting President Hassan Rouhani’s government under pressure.
Comment conceptualiser la vengeance et ses relations à la violence djihadiste ?
Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
Des chercheurs tentent de comprendre la fonction de la lecture à l’âge digital, tandis que les effets négatifs des écrans sont pointés du doigt.
To counter the unbalanced effects of the digital age, reading literature is the key.
Anti-immigrant policies ignore that American ideals like liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness can be traced back to the indigenous pioneers who once moved freely across North America.
Le groupe djihadiste est-il une incarnation « néo-baasiste » ou au contraire l’expression du rejet violent de tout l’héritage du régime de Sadam Hussein ? Le débat fait rage, et aussi fausse route.
The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Ireland are among the rich countries that funnel major corporate money into secret offshore tax shelters, according to a new study.
The African court has demonstrated its autonomy in a continent where judicial independence remains shaky in many states.
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.
Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.
Tehran is fostering a start-up industry as a possible motor to solve Iran’s unemployment crisis.
Jobs and labour rights are at the centre of the candidates’ campaigns in the Iranian presidential election.
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
Like the League of Nations before it, the UN is often dismissed as a powerless talking shop or a proxy for the great powers. It’s much more than that.
African lions were initially thought to belong to a single subspecies but new research shows that there is more diversity on the African continent.
Explained: the implications of a Eurosceptic victory in the Netherlands vote.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Ecology, Leiden University
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Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Public Health, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor in Development Studies, Leiden University
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Professor of Violence and Interventions, Leiden University
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Research group leader, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Senior researcher, Instituut Biologie Leiden, Leiden University
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Professor of Ecotoxicology, Leiden University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology and Nanotoxicology, Leiden University
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Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
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Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Change, Leiden University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, International Relations, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor of Ecology, Leiden University
