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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...

Greg Simons, Iulian Chifu | 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

How is China getting innovative? A perspective of political economy

China has become not only the second largest economy in the world but also a juggernaut in science, technology, and innovation (STI). The publication of our book, The Political Economy of Science, Technology,...

Cong Cao, Yutao Sun | 30 Jun 2023

Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers

We tend to think of the physical printed book as a traditional format. In our own cultural moment, people often draw a contrast between printed books you can leaf through, dog-ear, or scrawl in, and their...

Devani Singh | 30 Jun 2023

The tone that makes the music: Psychodynamics of Listening with Intent

When a therapist listens to a patient in psychotherapy, this is a bit like listening to music. With music, we listen to musical notes but also to the tone, rhythm, the themes that emerge, the changes...

Adam Polnay | 30 Jun 2023

So you think you knew comics…

Comics are immensely volatile, existing in numerous forms, acquiring different degrees of acclaim (and disdain or indifference): they have designated sections in newspapers, they have leant characters...

Maaheen Ahmed | 30 Jun 2023

Johann Strauss’s Emperor Waltz. A Cover Story

One of the most pleasant tasks facing the author of a published book is choosing an appropriate image for the cover. For a biography of one person the choice is obvious, an image of the subject. In my...

David Wyn Jones | 29 Jun 2023

We Need to Change the God Debate

Towards A New Understanding Of Atheism No worldview has grown faster since the early 20th century than atheism. Exact numbers are hard to give, but probably some 5-10% of the world’s population...

Rik Peels | 27 Jun 2023