Nurturing Cognitive and Affective Empathy: The Benefits of Perspective-Taking
Course intention and design must balance cognitive learning with affective learning, while also incorporating psychomotor learning through engaging class activities.
Gender Matters: Mainstreaming Women, Peace and Security at NATO
The aim must be to transform practice through better representing women’s agency, rather than reinforcing regressive gendered logics.
Brexit, Trump and the Rise of Jihadism as Rejection of the Political Status Quo
The solutions to extremism and terrorism lie in a rejection of the status quo. It is the power of the elites and political shortsightedness which make progress difficult.
Structuring a Mixed-Methods Course
With some fine-tuning, the mixed-method model has the potential to be an effective and economical teaching approach.
Humanitarian Interventionism Is Dead, Long Live Humanitarian Interventionism
The consequences of poorly implemented measures can be dire so it’s not just a Responsibility to Protect but a Responsibility to Implement Effective Policy.
Fostering Inclusion in a Diverse Classroom
Teaching students from a range of nationalities and cultures results can be rich and rewarding, yet it is not without difficulties.
The Nazi Movement Today: Our Cousins, Ourselves
It is about time that the white supremacists among us learn that they do not own the Right. Nor do they represent it.
Going Grassroots: Visiting the Foreign Locales of Arkansas and Southwest Texas
Travelling through the Southwest of the USA reveals that there is much to learn about a local culture not yet homogenized by the great thrust of globalization.
The Weird and Wonderful Virtues of Human Geography
When one reads Human Geography seriously, one is more open to the creative dance of complex causes and open to lumpy landscapes.
Trump’s Dream and Tocqueville’s Nightmare
The current erosion of agency amongst citizens in the U.S. is bringing us closer than ever to Tocqueville’s cautions of the path to despotism
