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The Crisis of Modern Nihilism and its Source

It is often said that our age suffers from a crisis of nihilism. Despite all the wealth, benefits, and comforts produced by modern industrial countries, there is still a sense of malaise that something...

Jon Stewart | 4 Apr 2023

Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria

This book begins the task – for academics as well as policy-makers and conflict negotiators – of rethinking what ceasefires are and what are their potential ramifications. Over the past few decades,...

Marika Sosnowski | 3 Apr 2023

Farm Subsidies and International Trade Rules

Farm subsidies and international trade rules are the subjects of a new 2023 book Agricultural Domestic Support under the WTO: Experience and Prospects. Why now? ‘It could not be more topical’...

David Orden, Lars Brink | 31 Mar 2023

What happened to the Persianate in the age of nationalism?

Iranian literary historian Muhammad-Taqi Bahar (1885-1951) together with Pakistani political and literary figures

Alexander Jabbari | 31 Mar 2023

The battle to control female fertility in modern Ireland

Ireland was the last country in the western world to make contraception legally available, and the debate over doing this was divisive. In 1981, one year after contraception became legal on a restricted...

Mary E. Daly | 31 Mar 2023

Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s

In 1872, the night before a meeting about the progress of education among Indian Muslims, Nawab Mohsin ul-Mulk (1837-1907) woke up and realised that his companion, the famous Muslim reformer Syed Ahmed...

Eve Tignol | 31 Mar 2023

Crafting Sensory Anthropology In/Of Asia

What does an anthropology of the senses entail? What part do the senses play in everyday life in Asia across a variety of historical and contemporary contexts – stretching from the pre- to post-colonial...

Kelvin E. Y. Low | 31 Mar 2023

Back to the Basics: The Necessity of Nature

The main reason for writing the book The Necessity of Nature was a discovery I made in an out-of-this-world research sojourn in Australia. I had applied somehow carelessly for a Laureate Fellowship with...

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira | 30 Mar 2023

The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

With the right light shone upon them, small objects cast large shadows. So it is with the American Short Story, a genre whose outsized presence in American literature – where it is a common feature...

Michael J. Collins | 30 Mar 2023

Recognizing the People

Democracy is about recognition of the people. But how exactly should a democracy recognize the people? The debate over populism is essentially about this question. Over the last two decades, voters around...

Christian F. Rostbøll | 29 Mar 2023

“Hitler Did a Lot of Good Things”: Trump and the US Rehabilitation of Nazism

As the mob incited by President Donald Trump ransacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, “saw the Nazi imagery in the crowd.” Milley...

Ben Kiernan | 28 Mar 2023

How Do Voters Form Their Political Preferences? They Follow Their Leaders

A romantic notion of democracy depicts democratic governments as accountable to their citizens and acting in their citizens’ interests. Academic analyses of democratic decision-making support this view....

Randall G. Holcombe | 24 Mar 2023