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In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...

In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s ...

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and ...

Iza Ding teaches political science at Northwestern. The Performative State came out in 2022.

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic challenges facing Japan: high taxes, inflation, low wages and the cost of living.

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things. Two years later, the education system collapsed in the Cultural Revolution.

In​ a crowded conference room in January 2025, Hossein Marashi, secretary-general of the Executives of Reconstruction Party ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, more powerful house (loosely equivalent to the House of Commons, although ...

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...