Category: Global Issues
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Head-hunting for Hamas
The following article first appeared on the Brookings Blog where Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards looks at the main runners and riders in next year’s election race to elect a new leader of Hamas.
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Is Jordan’s Islamist phoenix rising again?
The following article first appeared on the Brookings Blog in which Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards looks at the recent parliamentary elections in Jordan which heralded the return of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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How not to resettle refugees – lessons from the struggles of the Vietnamese boat people
Article first appeared in The Conversation.
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Why Putin has pulled Russia out of Syria
Dr Alexander Titov looks at Putin’s recent decision to withdraw Russia’s military forces from Syria and how Russia has emerged as a key player in the Middle East.
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Reaching new heights, (or depths), in global wealth inequalities
Dr Eoin Flaherty takes a look at examples of exceptional wealth throughout the ages and asks, was there ever a time when so few people controlled so much wealth?