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 […]

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 reshape many realms, launch new […]

 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 Medicine, Physics and Chemistry – […]

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 and the United Nations to […]

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 actors and what the African […]

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 describe politics in one word, […]