Opinion – Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy is Typically Latin American
The ideas guiding Bolsonaro’s foreign policy are not essentially different from those championed by many others who preceded him.
Regulating AI: A Success Story for the European Union?
Regulation could be the key to providing a level playing field for companies to develop by ensuring legal certainty, and providing a good-practice example to export.
Returning to Chajsy, Belarus: Back to Stalin
The problems faced today seem even more complex than in the late 1980s when, in retrospect, there was more opportunity for open discussion.
Black Lives Matter, Poetry, and Pedagogy: On Gil Scott-Heron and Global Protests
While Gil Scott-Heron’s work contends with the sociopolitical brutalities of racism, it also signals toward the possibilities (and impossibilities) of change.
The Psychological Dimension of COVID-19 Disinformation
Better knowledge of precisely how disinformation erodes trust in states and institutions might point to reinforcing the psychological factor as a useful endeavor in enhancing resilience efforts.
Teaching and Publishing in Cambridge and Moscow
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences teaching and publishing 20th Century Russian history books in Cambridge and Moscow.
Opinion – The Survival of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The Bolivarian Revolution and its authoritarian resilience can be interpreted as manifestations of a larger global process relating to the decline of the liberal order.
Opinion – Eulogy for American Exceptionalism
The outdated notion of exceptionalism undermines the effectiveness of US foreign policy and harms important areas of international cooperation.
Doom, Boom or Hibernation? Covid-19 and the Defense Industry
The disruption of global value chains is devastating for smaller and more niche companies. Bigger and more diversified players seem to be faring better.
Covid-19: Learning the Hard Way
Governments, regardless of type, that recognized the magnitude of the threat at the early stages of the outbreak and enforced social isolation early, suffered from lower infection rates.
