By Spyros A. Sofos, Assistant Professor in Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Discussions about Israel’s role in the Middle East still revolve around threats and responses. Yet recent developments suggest that Israel isn’t only reacting to events, but is increasingly shaping the conditions in which they occur.
This involves both direct interventions that affect the security and cohesion of neighbouring states — as seen in its policies on Syria and…
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By Sandy Hershcovis, Associate Dean and Future Fund Professor in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Calgary
Ivana Vranjes, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Tilburg University
Lilia M. Cortina, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, Women's & Gender Studies, and Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
Zhanna Lyubykh, Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Employees often recognize workplace harassment but choose not to report it. New research explores the social dynamics behind that silence and what can change it.
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By John P. Hayes, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
While automobile manufacturing and steel steal the headlines, the critical minerals and energy sector is now coming centre stage in the CUSMA review.
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By Christina Dinh Nguyen, PhD student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Book science helps decipher and preserve fragile manuscripts, at a moment when climate change and mass digitization are reshaping cultural heritage work.
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By Jasmin Lilian Diab, Assistant Professor of Migration Studies; Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University
With the return of Israeli forces, the Lebanese parliament scrapped elections scheduled for May. The move is a recurring theme in the country’s fractured politics.
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By Jeffrey Fields, Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Some major events in the history of US-Iran relations highlight differences between the countries’ views, but others have presented real opportunities for reconciliation.
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By Olivier Moreillon, Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
There’s a line in Cape Fever, the new book by award-winning South African novelist and playwright Nadia Davids, that doesn’t just establish the story, it also makes a haunting promise:
But small house, big house, smells or no smells, this is much the same: that in the city you will come to know a person by two things: what’s inside their house, and the house’s way with the wind.
The remark gestures towards the invisible forces moving through…
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By Dylan Valley, Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
British-American journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux has a long history of documenting outlandish and extremist communities, from the Westboro Baptist Church in The Most Hated Family In America to The Settlers in the West Bank.
His deadpan, nerdish delivery, in contrast to his interviewees’ more animated behaviour, has become a signature style. The humour…
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By Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Adjunct Professor, IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East. With around 190,000 members, plus an estimated 450,000 reserves in the Basij paramilitary, the largest component of Iran’s Armed Forces…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Deminers search for landmines near Lasinja, a village 40 kilometers south of Zagreb, Croatia, May 29, 2013. © 2013 Sipa via AP Images Since the 1990s conflicts in the Balkans, Croatia suffered from the scourge of landmines, with hundreds of civilians killed and thousands of acres of land inaccessible due to contamination. In March, the country celebrated becoming mine-free, following a US$1.38 billion, 30-year clearance campaign.Croatia’s story underscores the value of the Mine Ban Treaty and should encourage more countries to join and promote its goals.…
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