Writing an undergraduate-orientated textbook that gives students strong analytical tools to unpack the rapidly changing world of labour is easier said than done. The concept of labour is one that garners less recognition among many undergraduate students precisely at a time when it is increasingly relevant to them. Students certainly … Read More
Author: John Hewish
Neoliberalism: Key Concepts
Why we wrote the book.
By Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings
There are plenty of books on neoliberalism, so why write another one? Indeed, each of us have written plenty about neoliberalism in the past – so write add to this already massive literature?
The answer is simple – because … Read More
What is the History of Emotions?
By Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani
Aren’t emotions the same now as they have always been? Weren’t they hardwired in us from the Stone Age on? The answer to both questions is a simple No. Psychologists, neuropsychologists, historians, and sociologists are increasingly recognizing the mutability of human emotional life. … Read More
Beyond Gridlock in World Politics
Deepening interdependence, due in part to the success of the postwar order, has created structural gridlock in world politics and contributed to an anti-global backlash across the world. Beyond Gridlock shows how we can nonetheless work toward a fairer, safer, greener, and more prosperous world by finding pathways of change … Read More
A History of Childhood, 2nd Edition
I welcomed the opportunity to produce a second edition of A History of Childhood for Polity, given that it is now sixteen years since the original first appeared. The new edition retains the aim of writing a wide-ranging introduction to the history of childhood, going back to the early medieval … Read More
The Future of Intelligence
Intelligence – meaning collecting needed information, usually by secret methods and then analyzing thiscollection to determine its meaning – is both very well-known and very little understood. In the United States, at least, hardly a day goes by without some mention or discussion of intelligence in the media. So, at … Read More
Intelligence – meaning collecting needed information, usually by secret methods and then analyzing thiscollection to determine its meaning – is both very well-known and very little understood. In the United States, at least, hardly a day goes by without some mention or discussion of intelligence in the media. So, at … Read More
ICT and ‘Smart’ Conflict Resolutions
In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid growth of “disruptive technologies” which inflicted unprecedented impact on social, economic and political systems. What started with mobile internet and nanotechnology is followed by 3D printing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other technologies that change human communication in unfamiliar ways. … Read More
Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
Governments everywhere are suffering enormous pressures, but none is more fundamental than the erosion of citizens’ trust in the people they elect. Americans are convinced that the United States lies at the centre of the crisis of trust. And in fact, trust in government to do what is right has … Read More
The Ascendancy of China and India
China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of countries do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing the very nature of international affairs? And as … Read More
Rome
Rome is the white whale of history—as immense as it is elusive—and in chasing after it the historian will learn much more about himself or herself than about the beast itself. It is a subject that undoes modern history’s claims at objectivity, the scale of its past and its irreconcilability … Read More
