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International Organisations as Vessels for Visions of World Ordering

What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers...

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, Negar Mansouri | 4 Jun 2025

Women’s Rise against Authoritarianism

In recent decades, authoritarianism has been on the rise around the globe. Some countries experienced democratic backsliding, while others failed to build robust democratic institutions during a period...

Olena Nikolayenko | 3 Jun 2025

Rethinking Competition: A Fresh Perspective on Its Role in Society

We frequently engage in competition—whether as participants or facilitators—across various contexts, often without conscious awareness or even while denying its presence. While competition is traditionally...

Ahlam Lee | 31 May 2025

From ‘Common Sense’ to Essential Practice: My Journey in Lifestyle Medicine and the Launch of Our New Textbook

For the past six years, I’ve been digging into the world of Lifestyle Medicine at Imperial College London – a field that I now believe is of huge importance for the future of healthcare –...

Richard Pinder | 30 May 2025

Democracy for a Sustainable World: The Path from the Pnyx

In a world afflicted by an absence of trust in authority and institutions of virtually all kinds, democracy is almost everywhere in retreat and the unfreedom of authoritarianism is on the rise. At the...

James Bacchus , University of Central Florida | 28 May 2025

Rudeness Without Reckoning?

I’ve got a confession: I sometimes act rather rudely to my AI. Maybe you do too? Ever fired off a curt command to ChatGPT? Directed LLaMA with less than grace? Demanded Bard to do something over? Groaned...

Todd L. Pittinsky | 24 May 2025

What School-University Partnerships Teach Us About the Future of Teacher Preparation—Three Lessons We Can’t Afford to Ignore

What if the future of teacher education isn’t found in isolated innovations but in SUP relationships? Around the world, teacher education is at a critical crossroads grappling with challenges like...

Janna Dresden, Joanna Ferrara, Jane E. Neapolitan, Dianne Yendol-Hoppey | 24 May 2025

Mathematical frameworks to understand the logic of life

The complexity of living systems is among the most fascinating subjects in science. From cellular responses, adaptation and rhythms, synchronized firing of neurons to the emergence of multicellular patterns...

Hiroaki Takagi, Chikara Furusawa, Satoshi Sawai, Kunihiko Kaneko | 23 May 2025

Percy Shelley in Context

When the idea of setting up a Modern Languages school (which was intended to include the study of English) was being debated at the University of Oxford in the late 1880s, E.A. Freeman, Regius Professor...

Ross Wilson | 23 May 2025

Reinventing a Nation: How Zionism Tried to Reimagine Jewish Identity

Zionism wasn’t just a political movement, it was a bold cultural experiment. At its heart was an ancient story: the idea that the Jewish people had a historic connection to the land of Palestine. But...

Yaron Peleg | 22 May 2025

Balancing Pressures in Governing the European Economy

Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated...

Fabio Franchino, Camilla Mariotto | 15 May 2025

INSTITUTIONAL EXTENSIONS OF A REMARKABLE SUPREME COURT DECISION

On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia]...

George Tsebelis | 14 May 2025