Analysis
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Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable
There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger – currently 276 million – could soon rise…
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Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard
Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil…
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Why does everyone seem to have food intolerances these days?
One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Evangeline Mantzioris The Conversation…
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Considering Political Engagement with Al-Shabaab in Somalia
As it reviews its options, Somalia’s new government should look into what room there might be for dialogue with the…
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Ballots and Bullets in the Bangsamoro
Organised in parallel to national polls, these contests pitted former rebels against powerful political clans, with an incomplete peace process…
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The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows
It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector…
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Presidential or Parliamentary System
When supreme powers are vested in a single individual—such as a president—it often leads to arrogance, autocracy or corruption! Andreas…
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Turkey Demands ‘Concrete Steps’ From Sweden and Finland for NATO Support
Although both countries have taken steps to improve relations with Ankara, which holds a veto over their application to NATO,…
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Pablo Picasso was not a lone genius creator – he was at the centre of several creative hubs, and changed the course of western art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is not presented as the lone genius creator – a mythology promoted by the artist himself –…
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Turkey Targeting Iraq, Syria, Cyprus, Greece
This means that Turkey will once again attack Kurds in Syria in an attempt to push them out of the…
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A Short Visit to the Taliban’s Tense and Quiet Capital
The Taliban are still finding their way around Kabul, the capital they took with the rest of Afghanistan last summer,…
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Kenya’s 2022 Election: High Stakes
It will be hard-fought. ICG To avert the violence that has marred past contests, the two candidates should pledge to…
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The whole idea of Home Affairs and its constituent parts needs revisiting
Home Affairs has been repeatedly criticised by bodies such as the Australian National Audit Office for waste and mismanagement of…
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Principles or Pragmatism? How to React to West Africa’s Slew of Coups
Though unconstitutional, those power grabs garnered significant popular support, embodying the failure of democratically–elected governments in that part of the world. Rinaldo Depagne Georgetown Journal of International…
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Avoiding a Return to War in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
But friction is building between the military and ethnic Rakhine fighters. ICG The parties should strike a formal deal to…
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A Welcome Chance for a Reset in Somalia
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Omar Mahmood looks at the challenges confronting the new chief executive and suggests some…
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