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Perhaps the biggest challenge to dictatorships is the danger and uncertainty associated with a leadership transition. No one—including the ruler—knows the real rules of transition, such as how the...
‘Oh, I’ve cut out carbs. I feel so much healthier’, many people tell me. But I doubt they know what ‘carbs’ really are, nor why we really need them in our diet. The word carbohydrate...
We are living in a global age of masks. The face coverings that many of us have worn since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic range from medical-grade PPE to handsewn cloth to expensive designer-branded...
Forty years after the end of authoritarianism, many Latin American democracies exhibit high levels of state violence, primarily attributable to the agency most directly responsible for preserving the...
Recently, I was in Wauchula, Florida, at the Center for Great Apes, which is a sanctuary for chimpanzees and orangutans. There, I met Sandra, an orangutan, and the only non-human person living...
In On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890, I seek to challenge how East African history is conceived in space. I do so in two core ways. First, I take the...
In Britain there is no shortage of academic scholarship, novels, television shows and films about the Second World War. It is a topic that plays a central role in secondary history education. It is a period...
In January 2020, the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a report detailing the activities of the different parties to the conflict(s), including non-State armed groups (NSAGs). The...
There is much agreement among ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’ that the modern Republican Party is an existential threat to American democracy. This agreement, I believe, is well-founded. With notable...
The operating department is strange; it is at once familiar to the public and those that work in the hospital and yet at the same time an unknown ritualistic world hidden behind locked doors, with its...
It is axiomatic that States act out of their own self–interest, dictated by political, military and economic considerations. Furthermore, international law lacks the elements one normally associates...
What does it mean to say that a weapon or a system is autonomous? As simple as this question sounds, the term opens a pandora’s box, because ‘autonomy’ has different meanings according to the field...
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