by Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Imagine a place where every home has paraphernalia for distilling spirits, where…
by Vivek Krishnamurthy, University of Colorado Boulder, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] More than two months into the war in Iran, navigation through the Strait…
by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The United Arab Emirates’ decision to withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries…
by Aaron Brynildson, University of Mississippi, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar U.S. military is struggling…
by Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s…
by Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Twenty-one hours of direct negotiations. The highest-level face-to-face engagement between Washington and Tehran…
by Paul J. Springer, Air University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Six weeks of U.S. and Israeli bombardment have served to degrade Iran’s nuclear facilities…
by Michael C. Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania and Lauren Kahn, Georgetown University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have…
by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim may well…
by John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Government-shaking protests in Bangladesh, Iran, Nepal and Sri Lanka – to…