#International

Edmund Griffiths

EdmundGriffiths

Just been at a very informative Oxford CCS meeting, with Mike Macnair speaking on the offence of treason. Some key points: Fundamentally, treason laws ban waging war against the state

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

New CGD note:Is the Global Partnership for Education redundant?(Or is it a more progressive, democratic alternative to the World Bank?)https://www.cgdev.org/publication/global-partnership-education-redundant1/ GPE is basically a pooled fund

BrianMier

BrianMteleSUR

Professor @RobsonSavio from PUC Minas, lists 10 signs that far right Brazilian President Bolsonaro is planning a coup: 1: He is encouraging citizens to arm themselves and form militias 2:

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acczibit

Legit incredible that the western strategy re: China was to help the CCP secure a 3 decade streak of economic growth and upward mobility because muh free market, then wait

Pepita Barlow

pepitabarlow

Has @BorisJohnson realised yet that for his anti-obesity drive to be sustainable and effective, he will need to take a v tough stance against US trade lobby (and the businesses

Ram

SocialChartered

Tesla getting into bitcoin has opened the flood gates of Retail Investors. Few things I would like to suggest to people entering due to FOMO :1. You don't need to

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

Who would have thought that "take back control of food standards from the EU to give it to the US" could possibly have been a problem?https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/1276036707897540608 More on a US

Tena Prelec

tenaprelec

#Kosovo parliamentary election, with anti-establishment Vetëvendosje (VV) obtaining about 50% of the vote, marks a sea change. Here's a quick and inexact (temp results) table showing how the Feb 2021

wilfred chan

wilfredchan

speaking for myself: i cannot support the hong kong autonomy act, which just passed the US senate unanimously. as gina chon wrote in reuters in may, sanctions have no obvious

Cris van Eijk

crisveijk

Some 100% real Hansard quotes from my look at the history of space environmentalism in the 1950s-60s.1. M. Foot (16/05/1963): "Does [the PM] think that the United States Government have

Sammy Slade

sladesammy

Approval of the schematic design for the 203 Project (173 parking spaces @36,500 each w/ library and town offices attached) is on #Carrboro town council consent agenda for Tuesday .

Abdy Yeganeh

AYdiplomat

1. Announcement of a new #Yemen government is positive news. It follows months of negotiation, sometimes slow, sometimes deliberately blocked, while the situation on the ground only worsened for millions

Kennedy Gochenour

KennedyCLST6

#CLST6 #CYO4 #Ethics I listened to another Arch&Anth podcast interview (I really do love them!) with Pierre Losson. Interestingly, Pierre is not an archaeologist. He's actually a political scientist who

Kenneth McElwain

mcelwain444

Data thread on JPN attitudes towards Trump, building off @PhillipLipscy's discussion. This builds on a survey experiment (Sep2018) w/ @AdamPLiff & @APInitiative, on the liberal international order. TL;DR: Trump wasn't

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

It's surprising that anyone could look at the campaign Biden just ran and miss the degree to which it actually did internalize and act on the need to disarm Trump's

Frank💥

CobhamCFC

FERNANDO TORRES: One of the best strikers of our generationA THREAD: Fernando José Torres Sanz is a former Spanish footballer who played as a striker. Starting his career in Atletico

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