Category: Guest Post

A long-term view of feelings about immigrants

5 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Ben Braber, author of Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant The public debate about immigration is raging in Britain and abroad, but English language use keeps changing. That usage denotes changing attitudes to immigrants. Academic researchers have noticed...

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The power of literature: ‘Colette and the Incest Taboo’

19 February 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Carol Mastrangelo Bové, author of Colette and the Incest Taboo. Julia Kristeva’s book Colette sparked my interest in an author I had not understood when I first read her decades ago. So literary critics may well influence our tastes and also our values, I...

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The Second Cold War and beyond

11 February 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Richard Sakwa, author of The Culture of the Second Cold War Three decades ago, we believed that the era of the Cold War had come to an end. How wrong we were. The style of politics associated with the Cold War lives on. In...

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Farewell Oppenheimer

29 January 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Peder Anker, author of For The Love of Bombs It is often said that history is written by its winners, and the history of the atomic bomb is no exception. From 6 August 1945 – the day the United States dropped the bomb on...

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Russian studies will never be irrelevant

19 January 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lee A. Farrow, author of Potential Russia When the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist in 1991, I had just completed my master’s degree and my first summer in Russia. Immediately, people assumed that my field was now pointless and irrelevant, and casually commented...

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Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

15 December 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Marie-Paule Macdonald, author of African Cinema and Urbanism. The African continent, estimated to contribute less than 3% to global emissions while experiencing fast-increasing population growth and corresponding urbanisation, faces the effects of climate change on human habitats. Its youthful population holds the potential to...

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Why do we choose VR for art when AI has ‘won’ the Nobel Prize?

15 November 2024 Guest Post

 This is a guest post by Xinyang Zhao, author of Digital Immersive Art in China  The year 2024 has not been the dawn of artificial intelligence (AI), but it is already a year of great acclaim for it. This year, all three Nobel Prizes in the sciences – Physiology or...

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The key to reducing violence lies in our cultures

10 November 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Marty Branagan, author of The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding Most of us – maybe even arms dealers – want to live in peace and safety. Yet violence is in epic proportions, particularly towards women, producing widespread fear and despair. Should we rely on governments...

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As the African Union Mission winds down in Somalia, what next?

6 November 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jude Cocodia, author of Complex Solutions to Local Problems: Constructed Narratives and External Intervention in Somalia’s Crisis My book for Anthem titled Complex Solutions to Local Problems: Constructed Narratives and External Intervention in Somalia’s Crisis focused on the crisis in Somalia, the negative roles of external...

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Can Americans break the cycle of polarisation? History may offer some hope

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Donald G. Nieman, author of The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic. Most Americans say they’re disgusted with a political system that’s polarised, nasty and incapable of resolving the nation’s most pressing problems.  Asked to...

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