Iran says it will suspend cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog | Politics News

Iran says it will suspend cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog | Politics News

President Masoud Pezeshkian also says that Tehran will ‘overcome obstacles’ if wide-ranging UN sanctions are reimposed. Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)…

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From Trump to TikTok: how digital platforms bend the rules of politics

From Trump to TikTok: how digital platforms bend the rules of politics

Digital platforms have become the essential infrastructure of modern life. They power everything from our group chats to businesses, shopping, election campaigns and emergency coordination. They instantly connect us and continuously feed us information. Yet, although they broker information everywhere, the power of digital platforms remains largely invisible. They control content and harvest information from…

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The ‘Mozart of Math’ rarely speaks on politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

The ‘Mozart of Math’ rarely speaks on politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but I don’t consider myself an activist.” But after the July suspension of $584 million in federal grants at UCLA, which he…

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Africa: Karura Forest and the Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Kenya

Africa: Madaniya* (Civic Politics) – Women Emergency Response Rooms As Flourishing Sites of Democracy in War Time Sudan

The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced,…

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Africa: Karura Forest and the Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Kenya

Africa: Funding Cuts By Traditional Donors and the Future of Localization – Power, Paradox, and the Politics of Aid

Harare — In recent years, major international donors such as the European Union (EU), the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), USAID, and other bilaterals (such as BMZ, Sida, the Netherlands among others) have significantly reduced development funding to global majority countries. These shifts are occurring in the midst of rhetorical commitments to localization and…

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