This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare   In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and Senegal, which both rank in the top five. Since 2010, Africa’s representation among high-growth […]

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape. There has been a greater […]

This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of my own scholarship—I stress, again, the “my own.” In point of fact, I envy those […]

This is a guest post by Constantine Sandis, author of Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are. Ludwig Wittgenstein, letter to Piero […]

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 this phenomenon, but they usually […]

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 am convinced in this post-election […]

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 the end, this gave rise […]

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 Hiroshima – the victorious narrative […]

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 that no one would be […]