April Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law.…
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March Releases from Cambridge Aspire, Part 1
Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as a leading text in professional military education and undergraduate teaching. This third edition has been revised throughout to reflect dramatic changes during the past decade.…
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French European Diplomacy post-2024 – the Little Entente Revisited?
French president Emmanuel Macron outlined his new vision for French foreign policy in a speech on 5 March 2025. He argued that the Russian invasion of Ukraine posed a threat to all of Europe.…
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Race and Inequality in US Politics, Part 3
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the nation’s founding-central to understanding America’s political system writ large.…
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Race and Inequality in US Politics, Part 1
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the nation’s founding-central to understanding America’s political system writ large.…
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to haunt the world
As I sit down to write a blog post covering my article in the European Journal of International Security, The Swedish Covid-19 strategy and voluntary compliance: Failed securitisation or constitutional security management?,…
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Military diplomacy, agency, and change in International Politics
In our article for EJIS, “Communities of Practice, Impression Management, and Great Power Status: Military Observers in the Russo-Japanese War”, we build on a broader return to the study of military diplomacy in international relations.…
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Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought
In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…
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The confusion about socialism began with Karl Marx
There’s a great deal of confusion currently about the meaning of “socialism.” Is it no more than the Great Society on steroids, or a Bolshevik-style seizure of absolute power?…
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Reconceptualizing the politics of knowledge authority in post-/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Based on her FirstView article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Anna Danielsson reconceptualises the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions.…
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The ‘ideal’ diplomat: the role of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923-76
Using the League of Nations and United Nations as case studies, my article identifies the women involved in Irish diplomacy and the roles they undertook between 1923 and 1976.
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How do China-US rivalry and de-globalization affect Chinese business?
The international context of business has shifted markedly in recent years, with globalization under US hegemony giving way to the twin forces of de-globalization and a growing Sino-American rivalry.…
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Managing International Crises Together?
If we look at the world around us, attempts by states to somehow and at certain moments manage international crises together abound.…
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Challenging International Relations (IR) at its “Centenary”
In 2007 we published a forum in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific on ‘Why Is There No Non-Western IR theory?’. There, and in a subsequent edited book (Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and Beyond Asia, 2010), we posed it as a challenge to IR scholars to get their voices and their histories into the global debates on how to think about IR, both for their sakes, and as a necessity for the balanced development of the discipline.…
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Related content trials on Cambridge Core
Following the feedback from our customers, we are excited to announce two trials for related content have started on Cambridge Core!
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A Familiar Tale of Woe: Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal
Last week President Trump fulfilled another campaign promise. The move was enthusiastically welcomed by supporters as well as leaders in Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.…
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Author, Tim Longman, responds to Trump’s recent comments
Although President Donald Trump’s recent comments disparaging African countries have drawn international condemnation, many Americans unfortunately share his perception that Africa is a miserable place where no one would choose to live. …
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North Korean Resources at the Journal of East Asian Studies
With North Korea in the news, we would like to call attention to the range of research the Journal of East Asian Studies has published on the country.…
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Increasingly deep divisions in the world. What can be done?
We experience increasingly deep social and political divisions in the world, for example in the United States and the European Union, not to speak of war torn countries like Syria and Ukraine.
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Demystifying Chinese defence spending: A fascinating new article from The China Quarterly
Following China’s announcement of its annual defence budget at the National People’s Congress last month, The China Quarterly has published a new article that will help analysts, journalists and scholars better interpret China’s defence spending.…
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The Heart of Anti-American Sentiment in Muslim Countries
The US struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim countries has been aiming at the wrong targets, a new study claims.…
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How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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The National Archaeology Plan and the future of Spanish archaeology
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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Omega-3 Supplements and Autism: A Closer Look at the Evidence
The Paper of the Month for March is ‘Impact of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on clinical manifestations in autism spectrum disorders: an umbrella review of meta-analyses“.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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