Cryptocurrency allows Ukraine to get quick financial support, and Russia, to bypass international sanctions and protect some of its economic interests.
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A feature of the international community’s response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been the adoption of sanctions. So what are sanctions? And are they likely to have any meaningful impact?
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
The current public discourse about Uyghur Muslims has become too politicised to benefit those who are said to be subject to forced labour.
Trump announced ‘hard-hitting’ new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
Private companies – many based in the US – are blocking access to their websites from particular countries around the world. It’s contributing to a splintering of the global internet.
Qatar’s decision to aid Turkey in the face of American sanctions against the country may finally be a snub too far for its close relationship with the US.
US sanctions announced earlier this month may have triggered the plunge in the lira, but the government has been mismanaging Turkey’s economy for years, creating severe vulnerabilities.
Factions within South Africa’s ANC nostalgically point to the example of Oliver Reginald Tambo whose seen as an exemplar of integrity, personifying an ideal leader who served the party selflessly.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So what went wrong?
There is much debate over how to react to North Korean missile threats. What can we learn from Israel’s responses to actual rocket attacks?
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Researcher and founder member of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, Özyeğin University
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Professor of the Practice of Economics, Boston College
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Associate lecturer in international relations, University of St Andrews
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Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, HEC Montréal
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Professor Emeritus, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Professor, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor, HEC Montréal
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Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Michigan
