Tag: Syria
Trump’s friendly meeting with Putin further blurs US-Russia relations
Stephen Benedict Dyson, University of Connecticut
It emerged early this morning: a few seconds of grainy footage showing U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands with...
Refugees: Is there room for a middle ground?
Juliette Tolay, Pennsylvania State University
The debate over whether or not to bring in more refugees in the U.S. continues. There seems to be a...
Assassination of the Russian ambassador a big loss for Turkey
Sibel Oktay, University of Illinois at Springfield
The latest victim of Turkey’s climate of insecurity is Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
Karlov was...
2015, the year that was: politics and society
Emily Costello, The Conversation
As we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s politics and society desk over the past...
US ups pressure on allies as strategy for fighting Islamic State...
By Christian Emery, Plymouth University
Less than a month since Barack Obama went to the American public with his strategy for defeating the Islamic State...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
