Can you really be famous for explaining someone else’s ideas? Speaking as a historian of philosophy I can tell you the answer is: not really. But one man who just about managed it was Ibn Rushd, often...
When browsing through the pages of the handbook or stumbling across an abstract on the book online, one might wonder why we decided to write and organize this volume at this time. The answer is pretty simple. It is needed!
Immigration is, needless to say, a very hot topic in today’s charged political climate. Still, little attention has been paid in the popular press to immigration of highly educated technological professionals....
by Tiberiu Harko, author of Extensions of f(R) Gravity, 2018
There is an ongoing crisis in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the relations between Russia and Strasbourg. In 2015, The Russian Constitutional Court decided that the implementation...
The most common response I get when I tell a distant cousin or new acquaintance that I teach African politics remains the pithy one-liner, “Oh, I didn’t realise Africa had any politics!” Several...
Bullying during childhood and adolescence has captured the attention of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and citizens around the globe, bringing increased attention to this important issue. As...
People around the world face discrimination based on their gender, race, sexuality, weight or age, among other characteristics. Being a victim of discrimination is associated with a range of negative outcomes....
Editors of the Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman, discuss the effects of bullying in intimate relationships for Anti-Bullying week.
Bullying, or the ongoing and frequent misuse of power in a peer relationship, often in school, occurs throughout the world. Population base-rates are estimated to vary, averaging about 1/3 of pupils worldwide....
In 1988, during a family holiday in Norway, I met with Dan Olweus, a professor of psychology considered the founding father of school bullying research. He told me about the recent Norwegian National Campaign...
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