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Festina lente—“make haste slowly”—expresses the idea that doing something right the first time saves time. A favorite motto of Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, this…
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn. London: Verso 2022. 416 pp., £20 paperback 9781839766190, £20 e-book 9781839766213
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In October 2021, Rwanda announced that it will house a vaccine manufacturing plant using the mRNA technology of the German start-up BioNTech, which co-developed the Pfizer COVID-…
For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away with a great team of thinkers/practitioners at LSE and beyond, developing a new training course on influencing (as close followers…
Seemingly sensible proposals to Kyiv to partially satisfy Moscow’s demands in Eastern Ukraine are counterproductive. They ignore the record of compromising with Russian revanchism…
This is the fourth of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
How can we teach the next generation to read the news well? For educators, this simple question can be deceptively difficult. Do we want our students to be skeptical of everything…
The ever-deepening relationship between China and Russia has played a significant role in the current crisis in Ukraine.
Many in the West see a connection between Russian…
This is the third of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old…
Researchers in the global North often make assumptions about the motivations and abilities of local research collaborators in the global South. Not only are these assumptions…