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Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context by Daniel E. Agbiboa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 248pp., $70.00…
Post-disaster civil unrest has been historically rare and difficult to quantify, but new research shows that context plays an influential role in determining it.
Degrees of…
Dante showed us the pathway out of the Ukraine war. Dante anticipated both federalism and democracy. And Dante showed us how someday humanity might abolish war.
It’s difficult to…
Despite its global clout, the American technology sector is moving from Silicon Valley and innovation to Pentagon and geopolitics. Weaponization rules.
Since the postwar era,…
Grant W. Turner argues that the West needs a joined-up and just strategy to engage Africa or it risks losing influence to other powers fast making allies on…
Rod Thornton one recent developments in Ukraine and the calculated use of alarmist language by Biden.
The world is now witness to a new phase in the Ukraine war. The attack…
In qualitative research building a rapport and friendships with participants is often presented as a means to gain access and data from research participants. However, as …
Duncan Green reports on lessons learned from delivering an 'influencing' training course for senior leaders in the aid sector.
Well that was intense. We’ve just come to the…
Over 50 Chief Economists from all over the world have shared their views on the global economy in the World Economic Forum's Chief Economist Outlook report.
Inflation, growth…
Juliet Parker, Director of ALNAP (the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action), summarizes its new State of the…
Jolanta Burke explores research which suggests COVID triggered a great shifts in our personalities.
For many of us, some personality traits stay the same throughout our…
Learning to Do Research: It Starts at a Party!
In the early stages of a research project, is it better to formalize your research methods or to stay informal and exploratory? How…
From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis by Marco Grasso. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press 2022. 368 pp., $40 paperback…
Chris Hobson argues that without a heavy reliance on technology, there truly isn’t a viable way forward for healthcare.
As the US healthcare system creaked under the strain of the…
A number of pseudo-academic tendencies in Russian social science helped prepare the Ukraine War. In addition to propaganda and disinformation campaigns by the Kremlin, an…