Are we putting too much material into orbit and is space the next environmental frontier?

Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity requires that ‘those who have the same level of talent and ability and the same willingness to use these gifts should have the same prospects of success…

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

Welcome to the seminar series Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology with Peter Hedström, who will speak on Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories. The seminar is or...

Is the UK ready for the challenges of modern war?

The Starmer government’s 2025 Budget introduced the government’s High Value Council Tax Surcharge (HVCTS), which is an addition to an unchanged Council…

Where a mobile signal is available shapes who can work, learn, bank, seek health care and respond to crises in the digital age, yet no globally consistent, sub-national record of mobile network…

Ukraine-Hilfen kosten Deutschland Milliarden. Doch gefährden sie den Wohlstand, wie BSW und AfD behaupten oder profitiert die Wirtschaft sogar davon?

The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded project grants within humanities and social sciences 2026. Our total grant amount for 2026-2030 is nearly 473 million SEK.

This paper presents a novel explanation for why workers seek to defend redundant jobs rather than accepting compensation for job loss. While existing scholarshi

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There is a widely held view that liberal democracies have experienced an upsurge in nationalism in recent years and that this is best explained as a form of

Is it time for a Tech-xit?

This article interrogates the concept of general-purpose AI governance. General-purpose AI governance – or ‘zero-shot governance’ – refers to a scenario in which instances of domain-agnostic genera...

Anytime is good, but October may be best.

Generative AI tools promise to make IR survey experiments more immersive by delivering treatments through realistic videos. But would these novel designs offer real methodological gains over…

How Eisenhower’s treasury secretary became a Cold War fixer, intelligence go-between, and a man no one wanted to discuss.

This paper introduces the U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD), a novel, public, and regularly updated dataset of high-frequency financial market