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Despite frequent past calls to disengage from Afghanistan after 16 years of US military involvement, on August 21 Donald Trump outlined a strategy of continued American engagement in the country. War studies professor Sten Rynning unpacks the president’s new plan, concluding that while it gets some things right, much will depend on whether the Trump administration has sufficient patience and diplomatic tact to see it through.
We’ve got that expert analysis, along with articles on trade in China, greening the US-Mexico border and more today on The Conversation Global.
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Donald Trump announced the new US strategy for the war in Afghanistan from Fort Myer, Virginia, on August 21 2017.
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Sten Rynning, University of Southern Denmark
In Afghanistan, geopolitics are thorny, relationships are key and patience is strategy. The US president has outlined a decent plan, but can he see it through?
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Business + Economy
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Charles Burton, Brock University
Never mind NAFTA -- Canada's quiet efforts to boost trade with China should be ringing alarm bells given Chinese human rights abuses, and raises questions about whether Beijing has demanded secrecy.
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Environment + Energy
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Renu MODI, University of Mumbai
Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India's Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
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Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, University of Texas at Austin
Instead of building a wall on the US-Mexico border, a landscape architect calls for restoring the Rio Grande and turning its course into an international park – an idea first proposed in the 1930s.
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Health + Medicine
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Estelle Monique Sidze, African Population and Health Research Center
Free maternal services introduced in Kenya in 2013 had the immediate impact of increasing access. But it exposed a divide in which the richest 20% of women were the biggest beneficiaries.
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Science + Technology
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Christopher Benjamin Menadue, James Cook University
He's back! Any mention of the killer robots debate brings images of the Terminator film. But science fiction can be a useful tool to get people interested in the real issues in science.
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