America in Crisis: Will there be a peaceful transfer of power? The United States enters 2024 with a deep sense of foreboding. As Republican primaries loom to find their nominee for the November presidential election, US politics hits new lows. Donald Trump’s CV plumbs...
Mobilising Knowledge for Power, to Obscure Where it Lies and How it Works – It’s What American Universities, Foundations and the State, Do Emily Hauptmann, Foundations and American Political Science: The transformation of a discipline, 1945-1970 (University press of...
Reading Between the Lines: The Devil is in the Interpretation “…now is not the moment to blame the victim,” writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, and Dan Raviv in Time Magazine1 while defending the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made Gaza the...
“Who Won the Iraq War? Twenty Years On, Iran, China and Russia boosted while US loses ground in the region” Introduction The twentieth anniversary of American-led aggression in Iraq generated a Great Debate around what was achieved, squandered, and why the US...
On White Ignorance and being a security problem What happens… when the researched become the researchers?1 W. E.B. Du Bois, in his celebrated work ‘The Souls of Black Folk’, articulates a question that persists between him and the other world, ‘how does it feel to be...