Tag: environment

Interview with Professor Hakan Yavuz on The Torn Republic: Turkey’s Search for Civilizational Identity (Oxford University Press, 2026) 

Your book is organized around four major historical moments: the Early Republic, the Cold War, the Özal period, and Erdoğan’s neo-patrimonial era. How should readers understand the scope and ambition of this book? This book should be read as a major interpretive history of modern Turkey. In that sense, it enters into conversation with two classic works: Bernard Lewis’s The Emergence of Modern Turkey and...

After UNIFIL: A New Watch Over Southern Lebanon

  In Lebanon, the question of who possesses weapons is never merely a security issue. It is also a question of who governs, who protects the country, and who has the authority to decide between war and peace. This is why the approaching end of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, commonly known as UNIFIL, is generating an unusually sensitive debate. The issue is...
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The Anthropocene: Are we living in the sixth mass extinction?

Extinction refers to the irreversible loss of a species – when the last individual dies and no living members remain anywhere on Earth. Biologically,...

Can we celebrate sustainably?

Can we celebrate sustainably? Rethinking seasonal traditions in a warming world Celebration is a universal human instinct. Across societies, people mark transitions such as the...

COP: Past, present, and future

Overview of COP30 The 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being...

How climate change is threatening the future of coffee

Coffee, one of the world’s most traded commodities and a daily ritual for billions, faces an existential threat from climate change. Rising temperatures, erratic...

The pharmaceutical pollution

Pharmaceuticals in the environment: The global challenge of pharmaceutical pollution and how governments, industry, prescribers, and patients can respond Ever wonder where all our medicine...

What comes after growth?

What comes after growth? Reimagining our economies for people and planet Self-proclaimed radical economist, Kate Raworth, has remarked that the only thing in nature that...

The economic value of nature

Nature underpins the global economy in fundamental yet frequently overlooked ways. While certain natural resources, such as timber or rare metals, are traded with...