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Arabs Want Democracy—But Not With Corruption

Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest...

Robert Kubinec | 17 Jul 2023

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature (Cambridge 2023) unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond by...

Duncan M. Yoon | 17 Jul 2023

Michelangelo and the Indignities (and Opportunities) of Aging

Michelangelo began complaining about his age in the 1520s, when he would have been in his late 40s and early 50s. For example, in October, 1525, the artist declared, “I’ll always go on working for...

Emily A. Fenichel | 17 Jul 2023

Privatization and Its Discontents

Infrastructure and privatization are enduring topics in modern political discourse. Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American History places these contemporary hot topics in...

Matthew Titolo | 14 Jul 2023

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018

Latin American Literature in Transition (1980-2018) looks at literary and cultural phenomena on the hinge of our millennium. It speaks from the receding hyperpolarization of the dictatorships in much...

Debra A. Castillo, Mónica Szurmuk | 7 Jul 2023

The Grey Zones of Empire

A generic narrative of decolonization has informed how we think about the history of empire. According to this narrative, a colonized people gradually becomes conscious of its predicament. Through this...

Leonard V. Smith | 6 Jul 2023

Carter, PhD, to Present at APA ’23

Kenneth Carter, Ph.D., author of Psychopathology will be presenting as the Harry Kirke Wolfe Lecturer at the American Psychological Association (APA) annual conference in August 2023. Carter’s presentation,...

Kenneth Carter | 5 Jul 2023

The Authoritarian International: Learning, Adaptability, and Persistence

In 2012 during the height of the Arab Spring Head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to Algiers to meet with his Algerian counterpart, Rachid Lallali, to discuss ‘the developments...

Stephen G. F. Hall | 5 Jul 2023

Engineering Perception and Consent in 21st Century Conflict

Why are the interactions and effects of information, communication and politics in the various types of conflict in the 21st century so important and yet difficult to understand? Do we, not only as the...

Iulian Chifu, Greg Simons | 4 Jul 2023

‘Formal and Circumscribed in Time and Space’?The Authority of International Criminal Law

In April 2018, while undertaking a brutal ‘war on drugs,’ former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines rejected the idea that he or his officials could be held to account by the International...

Clare Frances Moran | 3 Jul 2023

Revitalizing the World Trading System

The history of trade is fascinating. Its origins can be traced back to even before there was a human race (the forebears of our forebears relied on trade to supply them with obsidian for weapons and tools)....

Alan Wm. Wolff | 3 Jul 2023

Mapping American Modernism

Image credit: “George Bellows, ‘New York,’ 1911, National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.” Editing the Cambridge History of American Modernism was a...

Dr. Mark Whalan | 3 Jul 2023