Consumers and the Path to Safely-Produced Products by Paul Blanc
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…
International Affairs
What They Do with Your Money – A Review by Lyric Hughes Hale
What They Do with Your Money A Review by Lyric Hughes Hale I have long been fascinated by…
Decoding Chomsky – An Introduction by Chris Knight
Noam Chomsky – founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident – is the subject…
The Moral Economy: Homo Economicus Becomes Human
Homo Economicus Becomes Human The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens Review by Lyric…
Battle for Syria, Part Two: US Foreign Policy & the Syrian Conflict
In his new book, The Battle for Syria, Christopher Phillips describes the Syrian conflict as both a symptom and…
Battle for Syria, Part One: The Impact of International Involvement
‘We cannot understand the Syrian civil war without understanding the complex web of international relations surrounding it’ Most…
The Future of European Muslims – An Essay by Tarek Osman
In recent months, the rise of far-right parties in different European countries and events such as the UK’s…
Islamism: A Series of Short Talks by Tarek Osman
Author Tarek Osman is a political economist and broadcaster focused on the Arab and Islamic worlds. In this…
The Growth of Presidential Power – by Benjamin Ginsberg
From Presidential Government by Benjamin Ginsberg — For most of the nineteenth century, the presidency was a weak institution. In…
Gay Culture is Gay Politics – by Gregory Woods
by Gregory Woods, author of Homintern — There is a tendency to think the culture and politics of…
Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice – A Review by Lyric Hughes Hale
With the EU referendum imminent the UK’s attention is firmly focused on Brexit – however Grexit still remains…
The Euro as a Unifier? An Extract from ‘Europe Isn’t Working’
‘The euro’s architects were building on shaky ground, to say the least’ British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson…
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World by Tarek Osman In 1801, the rulers…
Central Banks: The Only Game in Town? Review by Lyric Hughes Hale
Surrounded by sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment, growing financial instability and increased social tensions, pessimism about our…
Five Years On: The Arab Spring – in Books
Five years on from the Tahrir Square uprising that shook the world in 2011, we are still debating…