Music is omnipresent and “imbues nearly every moment of life”. By its very nature, music can thus be understood as a symbolic container; a unifying melting pot that is representative of the soundtrack of our thoughts, feelings, experiences and emotional responses. Music is at the heart of social interaction. As such music holds a great …
The many obstacles facing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, alongside the recent demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the foreboding prospects surrounding New START, all contribute to a warranted level of high international concern surrounding the future of nuclear arms control. These treaties have served as the basic firewall preventing unbridled nuclear proliferation and …
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Last November, mass demonstrations erupted in Iran in more than 100 cities and towns following a sharp hike in fuel prices. According to Iranian officials, more than 700 banks were torched, 70 petrol stations were burned down, and 140 government sites were vandalised during the riots. What ensued marked one of the most violent crackdowns …
Stories about civilians dying in war and conflict are all over our newsfeeds. Many of those civilian deaths are narrated as ‘accidental’ – examples include airstrikes that missed their military targets, contaminations of civilian water supplies, or starvation. Others include situations where civilians are willfully targeted – examples include conflict sexual violence, ethnic cleansing, or …
Co-authored by Adam Bower and Ryder McKeown On 27 March 2019, India announced that it had destroyed one of its satellites in low earth orbit with a ground-based interceptor missile. With this operation—known as Mission Shakti—India entered an exclusive club, becoming only the fourth state after China, the United States, and Russia to publicly demonstrate …
On December 19, 2018, US President Donald Trump announced victory over the most challenging terrorist threat in recent years, through tweeting: ‘We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency’. This proclamation caught institutional and allied actors off guard, and was accompanied by a Trumpian demand of an …
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