This book originated in a conversation over coffee between the two editors. The result was a decision to ask Cambridge University Press whether they would be willing to publish a book whose theme...
The climate movement has long been divided over how to campaign, and who to target, in their activism. This is because climate change is a diffuse, and complex problem that involves all levels of governance:...
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. ...
We often tend to conceive populism and constitutionalism as being antithetical but the relationship between them should not be seen in terms of mutual exclusion and perfect opposition. Indeed, it is possible...
The complex systems of life, mind and society are rich in information, and have to maintain themselves actively against entropy and chaos or be reduced to uniform ash.
In January 2021, the UK Government refused to grant full diplomatic status to the European Union Delegation in London, sparking a diplomatic row between the EU and UK. Josep Borrell, the EU’s High...
1.What piece of advice would you give yourself when starting out on this project? This is advice I would give any person writing non-fiction: use a citation manager. I ended up doing all my citations...
What is a medievalist doing writing about the nineteenth century? The Church’s dealings with society stretch out long fingers through the centuries. The Reformation changes created a Church of England...
New research on how management practitioners come to use management knowledge in the different relevant contexts of their working lives permits us to better understand the impact of major crises, such...
Ongoing violence is an unfortunate fact of life in many communities around the world. In Afghanistan, two decades of state-building followed decades of internecine civil war. Despite significant investments...
We expect 6G to hit the market around 2030, but we don’t really know what 6G is yet. This is a question our industry needs to answer in the next ten years. Can we find the right answer to satisfy...
David Gramling, author of The Invention of Multilingualism, answers the above question, and many more, following his book launch on 20 September. What similarities do you see between the languages...