China and the Fate of Taiwan
Bill Hayton, author of The Invention of China investigates the history of China’s relationship with Taiwan and looks…
Current Affairs
Understanding the US Election
Yesterday saw the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the run up to the 2020…
Conversations: Understanding Protest
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a…
The Road Before Me Weeps by Nick Thorpe – An Extract
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have…
Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with…
How do you talk to a Russian gangster?
In his new book The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, Mark Galeotti explores the underground world of the Russian mafia,…
The Ukrainian Night by Marci Shore, an extract
In The Ukrainian Night, historian Marci Shore examines the extraordinary events on the Maidan, Kiev’s central square, during the Winter…
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age – Susan Landau
Susan Landau, author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, is a leading cybersecurity scholar and former…
Should Universities Deny Free Speech on Campus? by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman
Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman Can public universities use concerns about violence to deny requests to have white nationalists…
ISIS, Christianity, and the Pact of Umar by David J. Wasserstein
David J. Wasserstein— When ISIS forces took the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014,…
Unfinished Business: The North Atlantic Crisis and Its Aftermath By Tamim Bayoumi
It is nine years since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and the world changed. Gone were blithe assumptions of increasing…
Russia and Politics in Southeast Europe by Dimitar Bechev
From Belgrade to Ankara and from Athens to Bucharest, Russia seems to be on the mind of everyone…
5 Books to Read Right Now: Current Affairs
2017 has been an unpredictable year in world politics. To help you cut through the clamour of the…
How do we fix climate change? – An extract from Ben Barber’s Cool Cities
The climate change debate is at the top of the news agenda and is proving controversial among nations….