This is a guest post by Ulf Hedetoft, author of The Morality of Politics: States, Honour and War   Today everyone is a moralist. Citizens as well as politicians routinely draw lines between good and bad, between who they side with and who they regard as enemies. They know – or at least feel – […]

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, […]

This is an interview by Dr. Luke Peterson, author of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Contemporary Discourse Q1. Describe the scope and content of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Discourse. Answer: My most recent book, The U.S. Military in the Print […]

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as big cooperative societies as humans […]

The guest author of this post is Professor Giles Chance. He is the author of “China and the Credit Crisis: The Emergence of a New World Order” published in 2010. On January 13, I arrived in Beijing with my wife to stay with my father-in-law. He’s 94, single since his wife died, and still working, […]

This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide ideas, analyses and organized settings in which governance (i.e. collaborative problem-solving) can take place. And, […]

Five years ago, the UN passed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This resulted in the establishment of seventeen different goals, more commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accompanied by 169 targets and indicators to achieve this agenda by 2030. Building upon the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and what both supporters and critics […]

This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Press Environment and Sustainability Programme What’s special about the Age of Trump? I would point to two things. First, our political leaders (not just the President) no longer feel an obligation to represent all the people in the […]