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Total war: Russian president Vladimir Putin inspects operations at the tours the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant in March 2023. Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News

June 7, 2023

How Russia is shifting to a war economy in the face of international sanctions

Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford

The options facing the Kremlin’s economic and military planners.

December 8, 2022

Corruption in South Africa: new book lifts the lid on who profits - and their corporate enablers

Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape

The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.

Hillary Clinton is seen in this February 2016 campaign event welcoming former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright onto the stage in New Hampshire during the Democratic primary. As both women condemn U.S. President Donald Trump for his creeping fascism, are they forgetting their own pasts? (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

May 6, 2018

Switching sides: Whitewashing history in the age of Trump

Henry Giroux, McMaster University

The likes of Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton and Michael Hayden are correctly issuing dire warnings about fascism under Trump. But what about their own actions?

Go to war - but who’s holding the reins? Activision

January 7, 2015

What Call of Duty can tell us about US foreign policy

Nick Robinson, University of Leeds

The latest instalment of wildly popular videogame Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, shows the narratives of today’s games can reveal the motives behind real-world politics. Over the past decade, fictional…

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