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.
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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?
Barack Obama assumed office in January 2009 amid public euphoria and high expectations of greater racial harmony and reduced gun violence at home and a more stable and peaceful international order.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps so, but let me add another 800 or so on the image above, which has cut through the media deluge like no other of late. The fact that we know the name…
Skills that make young people employable should be a priority.
When it comes to the Syrian opposition, it’s practically impossible to separate ‘moderates’ from ‘extremists’.
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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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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Research fellow, Middle East studies, Deakin University
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
