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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 5 Oct 2021
    Jed Odermatt

    What is the European Union? And why does it matter?

    In January 2021, the UK Government refused to grant full diplomatic status to the European Union Delegation in London, sparking a diplomatic row between the EU and UK. Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, complained about the status given to the EU delegation: “The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character […]

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  • 5 Oct 2021
    Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal

    Q&A with Incredible Commitments

    1.What piece of advice would you give yourself when starting out on this project? This is advice I would give any person writing non-fiction: use a citation manager. I ended up doing all my citations by hand, and, well, if you’re an author just starting out—don’t be like me. You’ll hate yourself at exactly the […]

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  • 30 Sep 2021
    G. R. Evans

    The Church in Court

    What is a medievalist doing writing about the nineteenth century? The Church’s dealings with society stretch out long fingers through the centuries. The Reformation changes created a Church of England in continuity with the Church already in medieval England but now in a new relationship with the state and its legislative authority. The further changes […]

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  • 29 Sep 2021
    Timothy Clark, Marlieke van Grinsven, Stefan Heusinkveld

    How crises such as COVID-19 disrupt the flow of management knowledge – and why it matters

    New research on how management practitioners come to use management knowledge in the different relevant contexts of their working lives permits us to better understand the impact of major crises, such as COVID-19, on the broader flow of management knowledge. Exploring these implications is of particular importance given that management knowledge – and management ideas […]

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  • 28 Sep 2021
    Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ilia Murtazashvili

    Why Legal Titling Is Not an Economic Answer to Terrorism

    Ongoing violence is an unfortunate fact of life in many communities around the world. In Afghanistan, two decades of state-building followed decades of internecine civil war. Despite significant investments by the international community, by 2021, the Taliban regained control over the country. On the occasion of the failure of the American-led state-building mission, it is […]

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  • 28 Sep 2021
    Eric Xu

    Envisioning and Defining 6G Together

    We expect 6G to hit the market around 2030, but we don't really know what 6G is yet. This is a question our industry needs to answer in the next ten years. Can we find the right answer to satisfy consumers, enterprises, verticals, the mobile communications industry, and society at large?

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  • 27 Sep 2021

    What can multilingualism do for the study of literature?

    David Gramling, author of The Invention of Multilingualism, answers the above question, and many more, following his book launch on 20 September. What similarities do you see between the languages you know? The most consequential similarity I see between German, Turkish, Spanish, French, and English is that they are ‘named languages’ whose elite, standardized forms […]

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  • 27 Sep 2021
    Amy Whitaker

    What the arts has to offer economics

    Researching the book Economics of Visual Art, I came across a drawing in the Tate Archives. It is a “concept sketch” for Tate Modern. It was drawn in 1991 — a full nine years before the building opened, and still a few years before Bankside Power Station was chosen as the site. The drawing was […]

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