Japan is adding to climate crisis by continuing to burn coal

What is Japan thinking with its plan to export coal-fired power plant technology, a known cause of greenhouse gas emissions, when the world is in...

Changing attitudes, not regulations, is the key to Japan’s future

Japan’s economy suffered its biggest quarterly contraction in five years in the October-December period, decreasing by 6.3 percent on an annual...

Op-Ed: Democracy and people are the only losers of the election in Afghanistan

Democracy, a most modern and charming western value was brought in to Afghanistan by the United States following the fall of the Taliban regime in...

From climate change to the coronavirus, complex adaptive systems thinking is key to handling crises

The global threat posed by the novel coronavirus presents a compelling new argument for using complex adaptive systems thinking to address our...

Bloomberg can run from Trump comparisons by declaring him ‘Bernie’s New Bro,’ but he can’t hide

The candidate has spent over half a billion dollars remaking the 2020 primary in his own image, seeking to accomplish with sheer brute financial...

Change on a ‘war footing’: India reshapes its military, seeks strategic balance with China

In December last year, the Indian government appointed General Bipin Rawat as the  country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to act as the...

'Bernie or Bust': Yes, Electing Sanders Is More Important Than Just Defeating Trump

Like a lot of supporters of Bernie Sanders, I do not especially care for the man. I’ve said otherwise, joked in my writing and to my friends that...

Boy Scouts declaring bankruptcy to avoid facing sex abuse victims while keeping its doors open to predators & fresh recruits

“Parents should be told the moment they’re approached about signing their child up” that the Scouts are dealing with the fallout from a sex...

Japan's poor GDP figures show it has learned no lessons

Shinzo Abe needs to tackle roots of economic malaise rather than raise taxes

Tel Aviv Mayor Reaction Proves We Were Right to Hang Those Posters

“Defeated, humiliated, pleading” was the title of Odeh Bisharat’s op-ed in Monday’s Haaretz, written in response to billboards we hung that...

A table for the ephemeral

A week ago, speaking in the mute language of objects, I paid tribute to my Ikea bar table for our three-year-long collaboration and solidarity....

5 Software Tools to Help University Students with Assignments

Read on the five must-have software tools that every university student needs to hold access…

Tovariš Trump

"V samo treh kratkih letih smo izkoreninili miselnost ameriškega zatona in se uprli zmanjševanju pomena usode ZDA," je ameriški predsednik...

Coronavirus, a National Mission

Israel has managed to deal with epidemics and epidemiological crises before. Just in the last decade the healthcare system has had to deal with...

We at Hebrew University Are ‘Collaborators’?

According to an editorial in this newspaper, the Hebrew University’s decision not to deny eligibility for a course exemption to students who engage...

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Bernie should own the socialist label

NEW YORK – Bernie Sanders is currently the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He and everyone else knows exactly how the...

Who can beat Donald Trump?

WASHINGTON – The U.S. presidential election in November is the most consequential in modern history. Whether the increasingly authoritarian,...

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Remembering Israel’s First Female Lawyer, 90 Years On

On February 15, 1930, a large crowd gathered to hear the High Court of Justice in Mandatory Palestine deliver its ruling on the petition of Rosa...

Overreacting or being careful? Coronavirus blurs the line

Novelist Kyoka Izumi (1873-1939) was extremely fussy about food safety. He shunned anything raw, and just the sight of “sashimi” was enough to...

Israel is preparing for the situation in the West Bank to explode

At the height of monitoring the Palestinian reactions to the “deal of the century”, Israel warned of the possibility of the outbreak of...

The Precarious History of the UN towards Self-Determination

This is an advance preview from the forthcoming E-IR Edited Collection The United Nations: Friend or Foe of Self-Determination? The principle of...

Crossing the borders with two exhibitions in Istanbul

The BBC series Years and Years, one of the prominent dystopian features of the recent period in television, inverts the course of forced migration...

Sense of crisis

Emergency steps needed to deal with virus People do not have to panic about the new coronavirus; but they do need to have a sense of crisis because...

Containing virus on campus

More elaborate measures needed to manage Chinese students The Ministry of Education has unveiled measures aimed at strengthening the management of...

The Israel lobby is mobilising to stop Bernie Sanders

In September 2016, the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain held a small barbecue to establish a new youth wing. Thanks to the fact that an undercover...

Shelton the Charlatan

BERKELEY – Back in September 1994, the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman actually wrote about one of US President Donald Trump’s current...

Boris Johnson bolsters power at home

By Andrew Hammond Boris Johnson has postponed his planned trip to see Donald Trump next week in the midst of U.K.-U.S. policy spats, from Huawei to...

Redefining fairness

By Seo Young-hoon Imagine a town of a hundred people. There is a factory next to the town, which requires the work of all hundred residents. This...

Urgent action needed to reduce the risk of nuclear war

By John Carlson Most people believe the risk of nuclear war ended with the Cold War in 1991. Unfortunately they are wrong. If anything, this risk...

Sense of crisis

Emergency steps needed to deal with virus People do not have to panic about the new coronavirus; but they do need to have a sense of crisis because...

Trump-style payback for Bernie

By Carl Golden The national Democratic Party is in full panic now, its leaders in a headlong flight like something from a 1950's sci-fi flick where...

Bong effect to intermittent artists

Director Bong Joon-ho accepts the award for Best International Feature Film for "Parasite" during the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in...

Germany's self-destructing political center

The far-right AfD is benefiting from the political turmoil in Thuringia, says Alexander Görlach. And as long as centrist parties including Angela...

Only Israel’s Arabs Can Unite Israel’s Jews

Without Israel’s Arabs the Jewish state has no shared national identity. Take Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan party, which changes its position every...

Now Recruiting – Climate, Environment and Food Editors

What we seek from you As part of a big drive to expand our team in 2020 we are seeking early career scholars and students (ideally at the Masters...

Are the normalisation terms already agreed by Sudan and Israel?

Since Sudan’s transitional head of state Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 3 February, an unverified list...