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When two people end up sharing the fear of each other
ISRAEIL: Ami Ayalon has been at the forefront of Israel's military actions for years. As naval commander and head of its internal security service, he had a creeping sense the country he so passionately defended was manoeuvring into a strategic impasse.
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Why do we resort to bombs and guns?
CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman's long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
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The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton's fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese's mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
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A treacherous saviour
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
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The danger of modified nature
ECOLOGY: With technological measures moving in all directions, researchers are faced with sky-high challenges. One of them is human ignorance linked to its indifference.
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The world’s best Catholics?
RELIGION: With the discovery of children's graves in Canada, the Canadians are arguably making the Irish rank as «the world's best Catholics.»
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An ever-creeping feeling of loneliness
ISOLATION: Daniel Schreiber visits a wealth of hermit literature – such as Thoreau's Walden and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. But what does social withdrawal mean today?
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Every war is a war against children
CONFLICT: Life stories reflecting some of the worst war scenes we know from the last century.
