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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 by the international community, by 2021, the Taliban regained control over the country. On the occasion of the failure of the American-led state-building mission, it is […]
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People shouting from soap boxes, newspaper vox pops on news programmes, social media all come to mind when we think of the public political sphere. Democracy, it is generally accepted, needs the public sphere to flourish. But what is less well understood is why the public political space is essential to preventing tyranny, and why […]
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The past few years have witnessed some astounding advances in artificial intelligence, with high profile breakthroughs such as diagnostic software now in use and autonomously diagnosing disease, algorithms that can design new microchips better than teams of people, and machines that can write interesting articles. As AI continues to improve, it is going to take […]
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Has getting married these days become a secular matter rather than a religious one? The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics would certainly suggest so. In 2018, barely a fifth of weddings in England and Wales were classified as ‘religious’ rather than ‘civil’, the lowest on record. Just twenty-five years ago, by […]
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What made you write this book? The monograph is based on my doctoral thesis, which was defended at the University of Aberdeen in June 2018. That work had emerged from a mere ‘what if’ question. While studying the world’s maritime boundary disputes, I observed that a significant number of those interstate situations involved privately held […]
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It seems the more that is said about capitalism, the less people understand it. This might be intentional: capitalism has become a politically useful catch-phrase, conveniently morphing into whatever politicians wish it to be. Progressives blame capitalism for the impending ravages of climate change, the profit motive supposedly overwhelming any sense of social responsibility. Conservatives […]
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While many human rights lawyers might legitimately think that consensus submitting all business-related disputes to arbitration was never in doubt, they will be surprised to discover that this was not in fact the case. It took several landmark judgments in the US and elsewhere to slowly push the idea forward that an arbitral process vested […]
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Why do we dream when we are sleeping? In his book Livewired, the neuroscientist David Eagleman offers a fascinating explanation. In the constant competition for ‘brain real estate’, he argues, our visual system is at a significant disadvantage; it is plunged into darkness each night due to the rotation of the planet, potentially leaving it […]
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