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Scott Montgomery tries and fails to connect Trump to his predecessors. Donald Trump has handed every ally of the U.S. the wrong end of a burning torch. His embrace of Russia goes…

Alfredo Toro Hardy argues that Trump’s foreign policy could qualify as anachronistic territory-grabbing imperialism. America’s foreign policy is usually categorized under the…

This is the third chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations'. Syra Shakir argues that to decolonise your pedagogy, curriculum…

Branko Milanovic on why its business as usual, kind of. To say that Trump in his new incarnation is different from the Trump No. 1 is to state the obvious. The world and the…

This is the fifth chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by…

Amrita Narlikar argues that while U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference stirred outrage in Europe, it also introduced valuable…

This post introduces a forthcoming e-book, ‘Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations’, edited by Nyashadzashe Mandivenga and Sara Camacho Felix. Chapters will be…

This is the second chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations', edited by Nyashadzashe Mandivenga and Sara Camacho Felix.  In…

(but forgot to mention it) My recent Substack on Donald Trump’s election and his assumption of presidential powers has attracted quite a lot of attention as well as…

Branko Milanovic argues that the similarities with today’s situation are many. There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39. It…