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Reaching a peace deal between Israel and Palestine is just one of the things Donald Trump has said he is capable of achieving during his first term as US president. Trump has also said he is open to either a one or two state solution to the conflict.
But the path to peace in the world’s most contested region is strewn with the failed efforts of over-confident US leaders, writes Lee Schrader, and Trump would do well to learn from the mistakes of his predecessors.
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Lee Schrader, United Nations University
Donald Trump is only the most recent in a long line of US presidents who have overestimated their ability to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Politics + Society
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Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with Mexicans. But so, too, is President Enrique Peña Nieto, putting him in a tough position for this week's high-level American official visit to Mexico.
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Lionel Page, Queensland University of Technology
The only thing needed for Europe to leap towards further political integration is for French and German heads of state to support it.
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Science + Technology
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Lorena Rivera León, United Nations University
Female scientists publish more and better research but are promoted less. New research from Mexico exposes gender gap in science there, and across the globe.
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Business + Economy
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Sara Geenen, University of Antwerp
The US wants to repeal controls imposed seven years ago on the trade of some Congolose minerals. The president's reasons might be all wrong. But the law was badly put together in the first place.
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Environment + Energy
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Katrin Ludynia, University of Cape Town; Richard Sherley, University of Exeter
Young African penguins are following the usual cues to feeding grounds only to find that the sources of food in these places is no longer available. This is devastating for their numbers.
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