It’s difficult for regimes to galvanize public opinion or maintain people’s willingness to accept the sacrifices associated with a war waged for questionable reasons.
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The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
As the coronavirus pandemic played out, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources found themselves in deeper trouble.
The 1991 Gulf War was seen as the start of an age of peace, but paved the way for much future conflict.
Also known as Gulf War Syndrome, symptoms of the condition include chronic pain, fatigue, and memory problems.
Army physicians are turning to drugs approved for other conditions or newly developed treatments such as the antiviral Remdesivir to treat infected personnel.
America finds itself in uncharted territory under Donald Trump – not least when it comes to climate change and Israel policy.
After footage from America’s first ‘living room war’ shocked the public, the government would clamp down on media coverage of future military conflicts.
Wars in Chechnya and Iraq affected the stories American and Russian leaders tell about their place in the world.
Our series on understanding Islamic State attempts to catalogue many of the forces and events that can arguably have played a part in creating the conditions necessary for these jihadists to emerge.
The rise of Islamic State and its declaration of the caliphate can be read as part of a wider story that has unfolded since the formation of modern nation states in the Muslim world.
Overshadowed by the terrible conflicts to come, this short operation was nevertheless a significant global event.
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College & Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
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Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Communication Studies & Media Arts, McMaster University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Florida
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Research Professor of Isotope Geology, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Assistant Professor, History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
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Professor of the Practice of Politics and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
