By Ouidad Yousfi, Université de Montpellier and Maha El Kateb, Université de Montpellier | (The Conversation) – Companies implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a way to present an environmentally responsible image and therefore gain legitimacy in the eyes of their stakeholders. But some companies don’t actually live up to their claims. Some businesses claim […]
What Erdoğan’s Reelection means for Turkey’s Political System, Economy and Foreign Policy
By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been reelected as president, ensuring that his term as leader of Turkey will extend to a quarter century. The electorate returned Erdoğan to power in a runoff vote on May 28, 2023, with 52% of votes. But with 48% of voters […]
Free but unfair election: how Erdogan held onto Power in Turkey, and what this means for the Country’s Future
By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University | – Recep Tayyib Erdogan will remain president of Turkey for another five years after winning Sunday’s run-off election over his long-time rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. If he serves the full five-year term, he will have held power for 26 years – almost the entire history of Turkey in the […]
Anti-Government Protesters are Reclaiming the Israeli Flag from the Far-Right ‘Flag Day’ Zealots
By Tom Einhorn, University of British Columbia | – Thousands of people recently took to the streets of the Old City in Jerusalem for the annual far-right Flag March. Every year, on Jerusalem Day, marchers descend on Jerusalem with Israeli flags in hand and terrorize the city’s non-Jewish population. As they make their way to […]
Pro-Islam Turkish President Erdoğan Campaigned on Space Flight and New EV, but he Hasn’t Beaten Inflation
By Merve Sancak, Loughborough University | – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled Turkey for the last 21 years. In the first few terms of his rule, Turkey experienced significant economic growth and a reduction in inequality. This was widely believed to be a reason for Erdoğan’s long-term popularity. However, inflation hit a 24-year high […]
Sudan Conflict: Why a Humanitarian Truce is Proving so hard to Secure – and What that means for People on the Ground
By Nonhlanhla Dube, Lancaster University | – Reports out of Sudan of continuing violence suggest that the seven-day ceasefire organised during talks in Jeddah – the seventh attempt to end the violence in Sudan – is crumbling. A fighter plane was shot down over Khartoum on May 24 and residents report intense fighting breaking out […]
More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court
By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | – Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking water system are corroding from […]
Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan
By Jennifer Greenburg, University of Sheffield | – A US Army handbook from 2011 opens one of its chapters with a line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Young British Soldier. Written in 1890 upon Kipling’s return to England from India, an experienced imperial soldier gives advice to the incoming cohort: When you’re wounded and left […]
Military Drones are swarming the Skies of Ukraine and other Conflict Hot Spots – and Anything goes when it comes to International Law
By Tara Sonenshine, Tufts University | – Loud explosions rock the evening sky. Streaks of light appear like comets. Missiles rain down. Below, people scramble for cover. The injured are taken on stretchers – the dead, buried. That is daily life in Ukraine, where pilotless vehicles known as drones litter the sky in an endless […]
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