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Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy

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Intimations of Nostalgia

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Managing Cities at Night

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Carl Rhodes, author of Woke Capitalism, is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. He researches the ethical and democratic dimensions of business and work. Carl regularly writes for the mainstream and independent press on issues related to ethics, politics and the economy.

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Luke Cooper is a consultant researcher based at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He runs a podcast called the Another Europe is Possible Podcast, with Zoe Williams of The Guardian.

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Natasha Lindstaedt

Natasha Lindstaedt is Deputy Dean and a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. She has written widely on authoritarian regimes, democracy, corruption and failed states.

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Eben Kirksey, author of The Mutant Project, is an American anthropologist and Associate Professor at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He is sought out as an expert on science in society by many media outlets and speaks widely at the world’s leading academic institutions, music festivals, art exhibits, and community events.

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New books this month

Woke Capitalism

Prisons of the World

The Richer, The Poorer

Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism

Crowdfunding and the Democratization of Finance

A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention

Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care

Fuelling Insecurity

Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy

Intimations of Nostalgia

Managing Cities at Night

Qualitative and Digital Research in Times of Crisis

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The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies

We Have Always Been Cyborgs

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