Police line up to defend Congress from protesters in the nation’s capital Brasilia, while the Temer government struggles.
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Carlos Milani, Rio de Janeiro State University
Domestically, Brazil is a mess. Now, its foreign policy is in crisis, too, landing a staggering one-two punch to this one-time rising star.
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Politics + Society
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Hedwig Richter, University of Greifswald
Over the past 300 years, Western educated elites have debated, founded and expanded the right to vote.
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Prof Francois Vreÿ, Stellenbosch University
Many African countries are sitting on vast and under-utilised oceanic territories that have the potential to unlock enormous economic value, if properly governed.
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Business + Economy
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Rodrigo Zeidan, NYU Shanghai
The TPP should still bring enough benefits for the remaining countries to make it worthwhile to go through the trouble of enacting it.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
Our approach to economic growth has done more harm than good and must be be replaced with more appropriate goals.
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Environment + Energy
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Benjamin Scheele, Australian National University; David Lindenmayer, Australian National University
Biologists have a centuries-old tradition of publishing on rare and endangered species. But poachers are using open-access information to target valuable and fragile new species.
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