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Post Archive
This is the first of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.On June 13, 2017, the…
What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to eat more…
The more people who participate in a democracy, the more democratic it becomes – or so de Tocqueville believed. But sceptics have challenged that assumption on the basis that not…
When you find yourself doing the same thing Putin and his propaganda machine does, you’re doing something wrong.
On 11-12 August, violent clashes erupted between the far-right…
llan Manor explores America's changing use of social media under Trump.
For over a decade the State Department has relied on social media sites to counter extremist narratives,…
Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims by David M. Rosen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 238 pp, $90 hardcover 978-0-8135-6371-8…
Emma Chippendale explores a recent conference on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State.
On 19 and 20…
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of independence and partition, and the enduring relevance of…
In Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists and the Making of Global China, Julian Gewirtz documents the interactions between western economists and Chinese…
Branko Milanovic explores attitudes to the global hegemony of the English language.
Several months ago Simon Kuper published what seemed to me a bizarre piece in the…
Matthew S. Cohen argues that cyber-space may be the best way for the US to respond to North Korea.
The tragic death of Otto Warmbier, the continued captivity of three…
After the US dropped one of the biggest explosives ever used in Afghanistan earlier this year, critics objected to the use of the name ‘mother of all bombs.’ In this blog post,…
Two economics reporters at Associated Press have joined the ranks of people unpicking at the politics of Westeros, the relationships of Westeros, and just about everything else in…
Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government…
Europe’s post-crisis recovery has been disappointing in comparison with the USA. But lower rates of inequality are staving off populism and bolstering support for globalisation.…