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Investment treaties during armed conflict: Special protection for foreign investors?

Through numerous international agreements, states promise their respective treaty partners to accord foreign investors and their investments protection from unlawful state encroachments as well as violence...

Tobias Ackermann | 23 Sep 2022

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

When I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned.  I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another.  I certainly...

Austin Glatthorn | 22 Sep 2022

The Burned Out Physician

Physicians and other healthcare professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. One of the most critical and potentially devastating challenges is the threat of burnout. That threat has been growing...

John E. Kello, Joseph A. Allen | 21 Sep 2022

“How did hesitation, equivocation, compromise, and serendipity give shape to a Reformation driven by a handful of determined people?”

In my last book, Luther, Conflict, and Christendom, which Cambridge published in 2018, I tried to find an organic way to understand the effects of context and circumstance on one of the great defining...

Christopher Ocker | 21 Sep 2022

Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice

What is the center of the apostle Paul’s message of good news about God? According to this book, it is something God did and continues to do through Jesus Christ. It is divine self-giving for the benefit...

Paul Moser | 20 Sep 2022

Are we happier now?

The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened the window.’” It took me some time to feel the force of this remark. But after years of studying modernist literature,...

Paul Stasi | 20 Sep 2022

What have fish to do with Gothic ivories?

Around 1248, the merchants of Flanders submitted a complaint to the French king Louis IX about the malfeasance of customs agents at the Franco-Flemish border at Bapaumes. Among the specific complaints...

Sarah M. Guérin | 15 Sep 2022

What’s Turkey doing (yet again)? : Between Kurds and Greeks

Perhaps no question concerning the Middle East and Europe today has been more loudly asked than the question “What’s Turkey doing (yet again)?”. Rightfully so, for, Turkey, once hailed by the international...

Eren Duzgun | 14 Sep 2022

“Like cool, clear ice”: Samuel Johnson During Lockdown

As Covid-19 spread across Europe in early 2020, my wife and I were in Seville, Spain, where we were spending three months reading, writing, walking, and enjoying the Andalusian cuisine, language, people,...

Greg Clingham | 14 Sep 2022

Power and Polarization in a Republic at Risk

Representation in the United States has always been a risky proposition. In principle, congressional lawmakers have strong incentives to collaborate on the creation of policies that constituents demand,...

Walter J. Stone, James McCann | 13 Sep 2022

Understanding Human Metabolism: Fats, the butter on the bread of life

Fat.  What a terrible word.  It’s what we don’t want.  Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it. Or so the word fat is generally perceived.  But that’s wrong.  We...

Keith Frayn | 13 Sep 2022

The Humanisation of Global Politics

Who matters in global politics? For a long time, the answer the majority of International Relations (IR) scholarship gave was simple: states. Then, gradually new actors appeared on the stage of global...

Sassan Gholiagha | 13 Sep 2022