US President Donald Trump appears to have a fondness for his nation's armed forces, appointing three military men to high-level cabinet positions as well as proposing a 10% boost for military expenditure in his federal budget.
Given its long history of civilian control over the country's armed forces, the US could actually be at a delicate juncture, says Lillian Bobea. Its southern neighbours have tales to tell about what can happen when civilian control over the military is ceded.
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Lilian Bobea, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Dominican Republic
By appointing generals to top political posts and hiking defence spending, Donald Trump is imperiling a cherished tenet of the US constitution: civilian control of the military.
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Business + Economy
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Quanda Zhang, RMIT University; Alberto Posso, RMIT University
Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
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Arts + Culture
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Arup K Chatterjee, O.P. Jindal Global University
Hearing of a murder in an Indian hill station, Kipling discussed the case with Arthur Conan Doyle. Arguably, the case was passed on to Agatha Christie.
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Politics + Society
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Andrew Edward Tchie, University of Essex
Nearly half of South Sudan's population could be severely food insecure and at risk of death in the coming months because of the avoidable acts of civil war in a land of plenty.
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Environment + Energy
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Glenn Fitzgerald, University of Melbourne
Rising carbon dioxide may be a boon for crop yields, but at the expense of nutritional content and quality.
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