Author: Guest Author

Open innovation versus techno-nationalism by Kenneth A. Reinert

6 August 2023 Guest Post

Collaboration between multinational enterprises (MNEs), as well as between MNEs and research institutions of various kinds, is an active area of international business research and, more importantly, practice. There is a good deal of evidence that these activities help to spur innovation even among large firms. Indeed, technological development is...

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Soft power and all the tools of statecraft by Dr. Geoff Heriot

20 April 2023 Guest Post

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the...

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African memoirs and cultural representations: narrating traditions by Toyin Falola

7 March 2023 Author Interviews

1. What is your main interest or what aroused your curiosity about contemporary memoirs, particularly in West Africa? I became interested in delving into the study of this area when I completed a part of my research for one of my books on auto-ethnography a few years ago. I found...

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Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry

Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry

18 January 2023 Guest Post

When Will Natural Gas Prices Normalize, and How Will We Know When They Are Normal? By Sergei Komlev [This analysis of the current natural gas pricing crisis is an extension of the concepts presented by the author in Foundations of Natural Gas Formation – Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the...

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How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

14 November 2022 Guest Post

When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work on psychic numbing. We have all seen this happen with...

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“Whatever happened to the epic?” by Jo Ann Cavallo

“Whatever happened to the epic?” by Jo Ann Cavallo

1 November 2022 Guest Post

Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel for the first time as an undergraduate, however, I had been instinctively drawn to the eponymous hero who decided to transform...

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Arts and Sustainability in the Land of Eden
Barbara Sellers-Young

Arts and Sustainability in the Land of Eden
Barbara Sellers-Young

26 October 2022 Guest Post

John Dewey argued in Art as Experience (1934/2005) that art is central to the sustainability of daily life. In doing so, he is not only talking about being a consumer of arts by attendance at events or exhibitions but the creation of the aesthetic dimension within our lives from arranging...

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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

15 October 2022 Author Interviews

1 . What inspired you to write this book at this point in your research, which has covered a lot of ground from Thomas More and William Shakespeare to Jane Campion and the film adaptations of Māori writers such as Witi Ihimaera––passing through French cinema? Most of my published work...

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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage by John Quigley

Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage by John Quigley

5 October 2022 Guest Post

Anyone who is knowledgeable about Britain and its role in Palestine after World War I knows that Britain was given the territory by Turkey under a peace treaty and that the League of Nations legalized Britain’s tenure, conferring a mandate on Britain to implement a national home for the Jewish...

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Contemporary Figure Skating: Dancing towards an Unhealthy Aesthetics

Contemporary Figure Skating: Dancing towards an Unhealthy Aesthetics

27 August 2022 Guest Post

Dr Maryam Farahani – July 2022 Health and beauty classifications are controversial topics in humanities and sciences, but they are also inevitable concepts upon which people ponder in the path of self-discovery. In their edited volume, Narrative Art and the Politics of Health (Anthem, 2021), Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette...

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