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Yearly Archives: 2024

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  • 5 Dec 2024
    Matthew Taunton, Lawrence A. Peskin

    The British Novel of IdeasRachel Potter

    What does it mean to write a novel of ideas? These are works of fiction that foreground debate and disputation-like the discussions of Zionism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, the politico-religious arguments in G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, the utopian speculations of H.G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia, the debates about Communism in Doris […]

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  • 3 Dec 2024
    Cheng Guan Ang

    Revisiting the Third Indochina War

    The literature of the Third Indochina War has been dominated by journalists and political scientists, particularly international relations specialist with an interest in Asia and/or Indochina writing during the duration of the conflict. Like all contemporary accounts, they are very much dependent on open sources and media reports with very limited access to archival sources, […]

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  • 29 Nov 2024
    Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri

    An Economics of Artificial Intelligence

    Contemporary Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a learning technology that has come into prominence at the same time that humans are learning more about the nature of intelligence. These learning processes mean that what AI will eventually evolve into—and when—is unknown. This uncertainty is one reason why there is much hype and hysteria surrounding the technology. […]

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  • 28 Nov 2024
    Samantha M. Curle

    Advancing English Medium Instruction Research: A Comprehensive Guide

    English Medium Instruction (EMI) is revolutionising education systems worldwide. From universities in Asia to secondary schools in Europe, EMI is reshaping how knowledge is imparted and acquired. However, this global trend raises pressing questions: How do students fare academically in a second language? What strategies ensure effective content and language learning? Our book, Researching English […]

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  • 27 Nov 2024

    World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order

    When Donald Trump moves back into the White House in January 2025, he will have many more international friends than when he first became President. The last couple of years have been good for the radical Right: In Austria, the hard-right Freedom Party won the most recent general election. A few weeks earlier, Alternative for […]

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  • 27 Nov 2024
    Šumit Ganguly, Klaus Brummer

    States and Their Nationals Abroad: Support, Co-opt, Repress

    States have an ambivalent relationship to their nationals abroad. In some cases, states actively support and protect their communities abroad, for example when rescuing their citizens from conflict zones or from areas that were struck by natural disasters. In other cases, states co-opt and exploit their communities abroad. They reach out to them in order […]

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  • 27 Nov 2024
    Ruven Fleming

    Hydrogen – The Future of Energy (Regulation)?

    Hydrogen is the next big energy revolution that will help to decarbonize certain sectors of our society, in particular those (heavy industry, heavy duty transport, etc.) that are hard to `green´. There is no shortage of books on hydrogen — the technicalities, physics, chemics and economics behind it. But one of the key bottlenecks for […]

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  • 27 Nov 2024
    Woodrow Barfield

    The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction

    What We Discuss in the Handbook In this century there will be a continuing and even accelerating trend towards increased levels of intelligence embedded within the entities we interact with. Remarkably, it is possible that by mid-century we will even witness a point in time when we reach artificial general intelligence only to be surpassed […]

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