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Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action: The New Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism. By Aidan Regan, Hanna Schwander, Cyril Benoit, and Tim Vlandas. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2026. 192p.

Sir Keir Starmer’s current problems – almost certain to precipitate another ‘Downing Street Downfall’ before the next general election – are more puzzling.

Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has...

Martin Shaw is a sociologist and a leading authority on genocide. He serves as Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, as well as Research Professor at ...

The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who we are”, leaving its basic conceptual…

Gaza appears to be the Achilles’ heel of the idea that the liberal order can be salvaged from the Trumpian onslaught.

Reader in Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).

"What Is We? : Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham – Zoom, Mon 2 Feb 2026 - The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social…

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 157 Koen van Zon, Heralds of a Democratic Europe: Representation without Politicization in the European Community, 1948–68.

William Crawley debates challenging issues and talks to the people making the headlines.

The Centre for Palestine Studies is honoured to host a discussion of British complicity in mass atrocities in Gaza with two prominent authors: Peter Oborne, author of Complicit: Britain’s Role in the ...

Mike Phipps reviews The New Age of Genocide, by Martin Shaw, published by Agenda. This book addresses not only the concept of genocide but its return to a central place in world politics. It explores both the West’s failure to prevent genocide, and, in the case of Palestine, its active complicity in it. But Shaw is no campist, blind to the genocidal aspects of other imperial wars.

Artificial intelligence counts as today's great transformational force reshaping our societies and economies. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive p...

Why political science can’t grasp Trumpism

Buy The Disorderly Society: Rethinking Global Governance in an Age of Anarchy by Lo, Dr. Bobo (ISBN: 9781788218443) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Gaia Wakes endows the emergence of a planetary brain with both a plausible economic mechanism and a historical context in which that mechanism has operated f...

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