COVID-19 as a Human Security Threat in Non-traditional Security Issues
The end of the Cold War has had a new impact on international security in a more non-military direction and caused by non-State actors challenging…
Gun violence and race explored in Jonathan Metzl’s ‘What We’ve Become’
On the Shelf What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms By Jonathan M. MetzlW. W. Norton & Company: 384 pages, $30…
High-tech and war are integrating some ultra-Orthodox Jews into Israel’s secular society
TEL AVIV — Yakob Shoolman spent years studying the Torah, pouring over ancient scripture like many boys in his ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. He lived a sequestered…
Delving into the Social-Humanitarian Aspects of the Mexican Drug War
The widespread drug trafficking that began in Mexico and subsequently extended to other nations, including the US, is what gave rise to the Mexican Drug…
At Birch Society headquarters, looking for roots of conspiracy theory in U.S.
APPLETON, Wis. — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the…
Christian Wakeford MP says ‘conversion therapy’ needs ‘stamping out across society’
Christian Wakeford, Labour MP for Bury South, has once again spoken out about the need to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy’ for all LGBTQIA+ people. Last…
The Silent Killer in Central Asia: How Environmental Degradation Leads to Societal Collapse
This paper sheds light on an often overlooked link between environmental degradation and societal collapse. By emphasizing how environmental disasters, from historical droughts to present-day…
‘Past Lives’ named best picture by National Society of Film Critics
Just ahead of Sunday’s Golden Globes Awards, Celine Song’s decades-spanning romance film “Past Lives” was named the best picture of 2023 by the National Society…
The International System between Crisis and Revolution
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of…
‘Society of the Snow’ review: A gripping tale of survival
A Uruguayan rugby team gets stranded in the Andes Mountains for 72 days after their plane crashes. Eventually the remaining survivors resort to eating the…
Israel-Gaza war: Why are culture and society targets? | Israel-Palestine conflict
Fatima Bhutto talks with Marc Lamont Hill about support for Gaza in the Muslim world and attacks on Palestinian culture. Since the beginning of Israel’s…
“No Peace, No Recognition, No Negotiations”? Arab Society on the Way to Radicalization
The first take-away from the October 2023 violence surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is that this conflict—regardless of what has been said before—remains at the center…
12 High-Impact Business, Government and Civil Society Partnerships for Climate and Nature
World leaders joined the World Economic Forum’s programme at the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28) to advance dialogue, innovation and cooperation…
Gaza humanitarian disaster heralds ‘breakdown’ of society
As intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza and fighting with Palestinian armed groups continued to impede aid operations, reports on the ground of children begging for…