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Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and environmental problems.
New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
Italy’s prime minister won big in the European elections, leveraging her campaign to bring her exclusionary politics into the mainstream.
The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
The idea is to create a new culture in which passive compliance with racketeering and extortion is not the default.
Women’s participation in warfare is not a recent phenomenon. Women played many roles in the Italian Wars, which engulfed Europe between 1494 and 1559.
One hundred years after the Italian opposition leader’s murder, documents long locked away at the London School of Economics could shed new light on Mussolini’s involvement in his death
The proposed EU asylum and migration reforms focus on securing borders and making it easier to deport people, with little protection for migrants and asylum seekers.
She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life after Byron.
Legendary European parliament president Simone Veil fought for women’s reproductive rights in France and in Brussels. Is her legacy about to be re-opened?
However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
A spate of recent high-profile murders has put focus on the role of patriarchy and misogyny in persistent rates of anti-woman violence in Italy.
These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love.
German economic power is propping up the euro. But this cannot continue indefinitely.
Iceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the past. A volcanologist explains the methods.
The meadow spittlebug can transmit a deadly bacterium – many plants in Britain could be at risk.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
Witchcraft is an enduring source of fascination but also prone to popular misconceptions.
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Politics, University of Salford
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Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe, University of Surrey
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Professor of Politics, University of Salford
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Professor in Criminology, University of Essex
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Professor of Politics, Griffith University
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Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Bristol
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Professor, International Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Essex
