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March 4, 2024 Kirk Chang, _University of East London_ and Alina Maria Vaduva, _University of East London_ The effects of AI’s growth on global security could be difficult to predict.

November 30, 2023 Lester Munson, _University of Sydney_ Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long,

complicated and divisive. July 13, 2023 Nisha Bellinger, _Boise State University_ Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, and Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, are two leaders who

have consolidated power using a similar playbook. September 21, 2021 Matt Qvortrup, _Coventry University_ How many other world leaders can claim to have become a verb? September 6, 2021

Niels Terpstra, _Utrecht University_ The regime knows it must adapt to the modern world – but its ideology remains the same. July 29, 2021 David Webster, _Bishop's University_ The

Olympics claim not to be political, but in the 1960s a counter movement organized by left-leaning countries put politics front and centre. November 27, 2020 Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat,

_Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta_ The increasing dependence of Indonesia on China has negative economic and political repercussions. February 11, 2020 Roberto Foa, _University

of Cambridge_ and Andrew James Klassen, _University of Cambridge_ Dissatisfaction with democracy is rising around the world. But there are a few ‘islands of contentment’. July 25, 2018

Sanusha Naidu, _University of South Africa_ The BRICS bloc can’t be written off. At the same time it shouldn’t be romanticised, given its internal challenges. July 11, 2017 Johanna

Schuster-Craig, _Michigan State University_ Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor. July 6, 2017 Tristen Naylor,

_University of Oxford_ It’s the end of the world (order) as we know it. July 7, 2017 Ronald Suny, _University of Michigan_ A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines

how US and Russian power and interests compare. June 9, 2016 Martin Parker, _University of Leicester_ They may not be the Illuminati but there is a different kind of conspiracy at play at

the secretive annual Bilderberg meeting of global elites. January 10, 2015 Steven Benko, _Meredith College_ It should come as no surprise that comedians would feel threatened by the attack

on Charlie Hebdo: the freedom to offend is the source of their livelihood, and many who have offended have been threatened… August 19, 2014 Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, _UCL_ Earlier this year,

British travel writer and resident of Denmark, Michael Booth, riled Guardian readers with a provocative article claiming to dispel the myth of Scandinavia as the perfect place to live…

November 14, 2013 John Gaffney, _Sciences Po Rennes_ Political commentators are beginning to tire of saying that things can’t get any worse for French Socialist president François Hollande

and his government. And yet, catastrophe after catastrophe, things… May 4, 2011 Michael Humphrey, _University of Sydney_ The US military’s assassination of Osama bin Laden in North Pakistan

is an important landmark in the “war on terror”. As the leader of al Qaeda he was the primary target of the military campaign to defeat…