The UK would be lucky to avoid US tariffs – but a global trade war would hurt everyone
Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University The first weeks of the Donald Trump’s administration have been marked by a flurry of announcements and U-turns on US trade policy. One of the first…
The global plant trade is spreading invasive species to Europe
Amy Hinsley, University of Oxford and Silviu Petrovan, University of Cambridge Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment…
Will multinational companies flock to Syria? Maybe, if foreign aid arrives first
Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex and Brian J. Phillips, University of Essex Syria’s new foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, recently appeared at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in the…
What Trump’s proposal to ‘take over’ Gaza could mean for Arab-Israeli relations
Simon Mabon, Lancaster University US president Donald Trump has made the extraordinary suggestion that the US should seize control of the Gaza Strip and permanently remove its Palestinian inhabitants. Speaking…
Trump wants Greenland – but here’s what the people of Greenland want
Kulusuk village in East Greenland. Shutterstock/Muratart Gustav Agneman, Norwegian University of Science and Technology In 2018, a colleague and I, together with a team of Greenlandic research assistants, conducted one…
These maps of support for Germany’s far-right AfD lay bare the depth of the urban-rural divide
Rolf Frankenberger, University of Tübingen The process of industrialisation, globalisation and urbanisation – spreading out from urban centres into the countryside – is one of the core developments of modern…
First new non-opioid painkiller approved in the US for decades – here’s how it works
Alistair Mathie, University of Westminster and Emma Veale, University of Kent A new non-opioid painkiller, suzetrigine, has just been approved by the US drug regulator, the FDA. It is the…
Spain housing crisis: slow construction is to blame, not foreign buyers
Buildings under construction on the island of Mallorca, Spain. K I Photography/Shutterstock Carles Vergara-Alert, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) As Spain faces a growing housing affordability crisis, the government…
Palestinians have long resisted resettlement – Trump’s plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza won’t change that
Maha Nassar, University of Arizona President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle…