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Human rights secured? Don’t bet on it!

1. Challenges ahead Human rights are contested. This comes as no surprise because they always have been. In recent years, however, new forms of criticism have emerged that merit close attention...

Matthias Mahlmann | 30 Apr 2023

Plunder for Profit:  The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic

In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated...

Elijah Doro | 28 Apr 2023

The Soul in Soulless Psychology

In a Word Association Test, someone is given a series of words as prompts and asked to reply with any word that pops into their head at the mention of each prompt. So here is a one-item Word Association...

Robert Kugelmann | 28 Apr 2023

What Prevents Democracy in Turkey?

The Conference of Lausanne in 1922-23 offers invaluable insights into the state of the world, Europe, and the Middle East at a crossroads after World War I. This Near East Peace Conference resulted in...

Hans-Lukas Kieser | 27 Apr 2023

The Rule of Law in Anxious Times

Undocumented migrants die in deserts, in winter snowdrifts and in turbulent seas. Authoritarian populist leaders jail political opponents, attack the judicial branch of government, and silence independent...

Stephen J Toope | 27 Apr 2023

Gibbon Hope – How to conserve the world’s smallest apes

Get your hands on the latest gibbon book! “Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene“. All about the smallest apes: gibbons and siamang representing 20 species across 11 countries in Asia. Hylobatids...

Dr Susan M Cheyne | 25 Apr 2023

Educating for Democracy: Preparing for The Office of Citizen

Educating for Democracy provides a vision for preparing students to become active, competent citizens able to assume the responsibilities of democratic participation. This vision is guided by the...

Walter Feinberg | 25 Apr 2023

The Rutabaga Game

Food shortages were a fact of life throughout Europe during the Second World War, and a daily struggle for most consumers. In France a children’s board game, the “Jeu de rutabaga” (Rutabaga Game,...

Kenneth Mouré | 24 Apr 2023

A Genre of Two Halves? Schubert’s String Quartets Reimagined

‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’,...

Anne Hyland | 24 Apr 2023

Make Making Great Again

The idea of society as a manufactured construct had a respectable pedigree long before Donald Trump got his hands on it with his grabbing slogan “Make America Great Again”. In 1796, George Washington...

Gary Watt | 24 Apr 2023

Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

On the very day that Cambridge University Press listed my Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid in its “Most Recently Published Books” announcement, I opened an electronic version...

Ann C. Colley | 19 Apr 2023

Purging Nazism from German Society

For thousands of years, wars have generally ended in the same way: a military invasion is followed by a decisive victory or negotiated ceasefire. Treaties are signed, territories seized, and reparations...

Mikkel Dack | 18 Apr 2023