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Captured by Design: Rethinking Corruption in the Military-Industrial System
Rhona Michie August 20, 2025
Arms trade Corruption Military Industrial System Military spending
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Famine Crimes in World War Two: The Warsaw and Łódź Ghettos
Alex de Waal August 20, 2025
Disease Famine Genocide Mass Starvation Nazi Poland War
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Quiet Defiance: Informal Economies as Sites of Nonviolent Resistance in South Sudan 
Geu Madit Koryom August 15, 2025
Non-violence Non-violent political action Peacemaking Political Marketplace
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Wild Power in the 21st Century
Alex de Waal August 14, 2025
Disorder Political Marketplace Sovereignty Violence World War X
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New Report —Tracing Corruption: Emerging Patterns in the Global Arms Trade
World Peace Foundation August 13, 2025
Arms trade Corruption Military Industrial System Military spending
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Though Global Food Security Improves, Famines Are More Numerous: Exploring the Links
Alex de Waal August 8, 2025
Famine Famine Data Food insecurity IPC Mass Starvation
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Hiroshima, the Thanatocene, and the Passing of Time
Alex de Waal August 6, 2025
Japan Violence War World War X
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A tribute to the MSF colleagues murdered in Tigray in 2021 
Birhan Gebrekristos Mezgebu August 1, 2025
Ethiopia Humanitarianism Memorialization SGBV Tigray Violence War
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Is Superintelligent AI Already Waging World War X?
Alex de Waal July 30, 2025
AI China counterinsurgency US War World War X
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A group of men stand around a large truck delivering bags of wheat with the US flag logo

Liberal Humanitarianism has Been Felled. What Comes Next?
Alex de Waal July 23, 2025
autocracy Genocide Humanitarianism nationalism UK US World War X

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