What does the left stand for? Social democrats across the West seem stuck, unable to move beyond the binary option of centrist technocracy or revolutionary … Read more
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The New Twenty Years’ Crisis by Dr Philip Cunliffe – Book Review
A capsule review of the latest book by Dr Philip Cunliffe, ‘The New Twenty Years’ Crisis’ from John Ikenberry in Foreign Affairs: ‘[this book] focuses … … Read more
Dr Rubrick Biegon – Primary Primers: Biden and Trump go big for Minnesota
As a Midwestern state with ten electoral votes, Minnesota is often seen as a key battleground in the 2020 presidential election. But, writes Rubrick Biegon, barring … Read more
Dr Paolo Dardanelli – Centralisation/decentralisation: how to measure it?
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a sharp light on the challenges governments face in managing complex policy issues with an uneven impact across a country’s … Read more
Dr Philip Cunliffe on The Liberal Disorder
Zero Books editor and author Ashley Frawley interviews Dr Philip Cunliffe from the Aufhebungabunga Bunga podcast on the topic of ‘The Liberal Disorder’. Dr Cunliffe … Read more
Emeritus Professor Feargal Cochrane and Dr Nadine Ansorg become International Mediator Campus Trainers
Become an international qualified expert in conflict resolution and mediation. The place to build your expertise in mediation and ADR with a sustainable and inter-cultural twist. Professor … Read more
US Election debate
Oct 22, 2020 06:30 PM Sign up to our special US Election debate, hosted by our Chancellor, Gavin Esler, who will be joined by a … Read more
Dr Ansorg – Securitisation strategies to prevent conflict diffusion in Tanzania and former Zaire
In the latest edition of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Dr Nadine Ansorg writes about the issue of while many studies dealing with the … Read more
PhD student Tadek Markiewicz discusses ‘When Victimhood Goes to War? Israel and Victim Claims’
Prominent sociopsychological approaches interpret collective victimhood as inseparable, central characteristic of societies involved in intractable conflicts. Victimhood is broadly perceived as an essential conflict‐supportive belief … Read more
Sahel expert Dr Yvan Guichaou comments on current issues in Sahel region
Dr Yvan Guichaoua, a Sahel expert at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies has been cited in articles relating to the region’s … Read more