Political Science

Social media is often criticized for fueling misinformation and violence, but it could actually play a role in preventing genocide and mass atrocities—if used strategically.This post was originally published on this site

Sports are often viewed as an escape from the problems of the real world. But when a Colombian soccer star’s father was kidnapped, the resulting media coverage helped move the story from the field of […]

Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás […]

President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter in a co-dependent and often complicated relationship between America and the Arctic’s largest island—one […]

A study in Economic Inquiry reveals how changes in immigration attitudes in an area spread to other localities and highlights the role of media language and social networks in shaping political attitudes.This post was originally […]

The detail of the European Union’s long-awaited accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is like a “three-dimensional puzzle” because of the several vital and interlocking elements which need to be agreed, a new […]

Most people in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy clearly endorse military support for Ukraine. They overwhelmingly reject Russia’s positions on territorial claims and restrictions on Ukraine’s political sovereignty.This post was originally […]

Diversity among students and researchers is a common goal across academia. This has been driven by a desire to increase opportunities for the historically marginalized in higher education—moving away from the straight, white and male […]

A new study into one of the world’s most popular tobacco leaf production processes has revealed its particularly damaging harms to the environment and how it impacts farmers’ lives in Zimbabwe.This post was originally published […]

Kleptocratic “ecosystems” should be seen as transnational enterprises and national security threats, with the recovery of assets legally linked not only to the individual criminal acts but to the systemic harm caused to national security […]