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Author Article: ‘Is Humanity Suicidal?’ by Lyric Hughes Hale
Yale author Lyric Hughes Hale reads The Carbon Crunch by Dieter Helm and asks some troubling questions regarding humanity’s attitude to itself. Are the arguments concerning climate change underpinned...
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‘Kenya Between Hope and Despair. Again’ Author Article by Daniel Branch
The people of Kenya currently await the results of their key general election, their first since the contest of December 2007, the aftermath of which killed around 1300 and displaced up to 600,000...
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A Video Introduction to the Groundbreaking ‘War / Photography’ Exhibition
War/Photography surveys both iconic and newly discovered photographs of war and conflict, from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in...
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‘Peak Urbanization?’ Author Article by Lyric Hughes Hale
As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city’s energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City. Austin Troy, a seasoned...
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‘The New Sorcerer’s Apprentices?’ Article by ‘Earthmasters’ Author Clive...
Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas...
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‘Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace’. Author Article by Feargal Cochrane
In this thoughtful and engaging article, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process...
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Democracy in Retreat: Joshua Kurlantzick paints a picture of global decline.
Though we may be uncertain of when or how it will come about, there exists a common assumption amongst Western leaders that democracy will eventually triumph worldwide. It is an idea which has...
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China’s Innovation Hurdle: Author Article by Lyric Hughes Hale
Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last thirty-five years, Stumbling Giant by Timothy Beardson spells out China’s situation: an inexorable demographic...
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New and recent current affairs titles from Yale University Press
The challenges facing the world are multiplex; the global financial crisis, costly and exhausting conflicts, and cracks appearing in the fabric of the gigantic political institutions. This compilation...
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‘Investment in Blood’: Frank Ledwidge on the cost of the Afghanistan war
Investment in Blood, the latest book by Frank Ledwidge, analyses the cost – both financial and human – of Britain’s involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground...
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‘Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development’. Interview with...
With 1.3 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth...
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‘The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future’
Glossy television images of happy, industrious and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different...
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‘Kenya Between Hope and Despair. Again’ Author Article by Daniel Branch
The people of Kenya currently await the results of their key general election, their first since the contest of December 2007, the aftermath of which killed around 1300 and displaced up to 600,000...
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Nelson Mandela and southern Africa
Nelson Mandella has left an indellible mark on his native South Africa. His life as a revolutinoary, politician and philanthropist was one of extraordinary accomplishment and global significance....
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The Future of Clean Water
With the planet’s clean water sources strained by over-population and pollution, Yale University Press sat down with Water 4.0 author David Sedlak to talk about the future of urban water systems. For...
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Austerity: The Great Failure
Is austerity the most divisive economic issue in living memory? Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a...
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The End of Europe? Not So Fast
William Hague, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, has described the ongoing situation in Ukraine as the “biggest crisis” facing Europe this century. Ben Judah,...
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Ukraine 2014: A belated 1989 or another failed 2004?
Whatever their outcome, the events in Ukraine seem likely to be of greater long-term import than the ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2004. Ukrainians themselves are obviously debating their meaning and making...
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Aristotle, Aquinas and Austerity. The Reality of Economic Cuts.
Tightening one’s belt, battening down the hatches or, simply, austerity. Whatever euphemism is used, this is a process of widespread cuts to governement expenditure designed to ‘balance the budget’ and...
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Hard Times: Explore the Infographic
The current economic crisis, like the Great Depression of the 1930s, has caused not just financial misery for the millions of people it affected. A raft of social problems, declining civil engagement,...
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