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Superjustice

law in the age of artificial intelligence

Justice delayed is justice denied - yet today's legal systems are failing at an unprecedented scale. Courts are backlogged, legal services remain unaffordable, and rigid laws struggle to keep pace with the complexities of modern life. What if we could use artificial intelligence to fundamentally ...

Belarus

what everyone needs to know

Recent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring independence in 1991, Belarus remained a little-known republic in the West, despite its important geostrategic position between Poland and Russia, and as a conduit for Russian energy supplies to central Europe ...

Demagogues and despots

democracies on the brink

Democracy and despotism live closer together than you'd expect-this briskly astute book reveals why that should alarm us all. We live in troubled times, marked by a sinister trend threatening democracy everywhere: the triumph of despotism not only in countries like Russia, Iran and ...

Seguridad económica de la Unión Europea e inversión extranjera

En un mundo donde la interdependencia se ha convertido en arma y la geopolítica dicta el pulso de los acontecimientos, esta obra analiza con un prisma jurídico el nuevo alfabeto de la seguridad económica europea. Desde la génesis y límites de la Estrategia Europea de ...

Preparing for war

strategy, power and military change

An original conceptual approach to the study of war, attempting to capture the entire phenomenon of military adaptation-whether strategic, institutional or in the field. The unravelling of the post-Cold War order has intensified geopolitical tensions, driving a global increase in defence spending. Most military organisations ...

Russia and Iran

partners in defiance from Syria to Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russia's burgeoning partnership with Iran. Moscow looked to Tehran for drones and ammunition to fuel its so-called 'special military operation', and Iran's support for Russia's war reflected a ...

Beyond Ukraine

debating the future of war

Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked a major shift in thinking about the future of war. This book offers a comprehensive examination of its impact on visions of conflict. War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms ...

Estonian lessons

what the world can learn from a brilliant Baltic state

An intimate portrait of Estonia and all things Estonian from the UK's ambassador, as entertaining as it is informative. Near the top of most international league tables comes a surprising name: Estonia. This small country has many brilliant achievements to its name which can ...

Protecting democracy in Europe

pluralism, autocracy and the future of the EU

The future of Europe as a community of democratic states is deeply uncertain. The European Union, founded to promote 'ever closer' integration, aims nominally for peaceful, prosperous cooperation. But this ideal has been battered by a series of bruising crises, and now by war. Protecting ...

Design love in

how to unleash the most powerful force in business

From New York Times bestselling author and pioneer of the strengths movement comes a bold new blueprint for leading with the most powerful force in business-love. Think about the last time you said, "I love that." Maybe it was about a product that exceeded expectations ...

How change really works

seven science-based principles for transforming your organization

Companies have never invested more in transformation-or wasted more on failed attempts. Finally, a science-based, practical guide to making change stick. Market volatility. AI. Regulatory uncertainty. Geopolitical risk. Leaders know they must adapt faster than ever-yet most transformation programs still fail to deliver their expected ...

The English Constitution

refoundation, restoration, and reform

What is England? What is England's place in the United Kingdom - or indeed outside it? How should England be governed? What constitutional foundations are needed to secure English democracy? In this ground-breaking book, Dr W. Elliot Bulmer makes the case for a written constitution ...

Inventing the modern region

Basque identity and the French nation-state

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France's process of nation-building. The abolition ...

Lying abroad

Henry Wotton and the invention of diplomacy

Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war. Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come. In ...

The sociology of sovereignty

politics, social transformations and conceptual change

The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty from a sociological perspective. Informed by the sociologists Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann, it addresses the concept as the centre of constitutional controversy and as a resource to deal with paradoxes of power in ...

Iraq's Shi'a warriors

from battlefield to parliament

By examining the PMU's self-positioning as a pillar of Iraq's defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations of externally driven Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) efforts. It speaks to scholars ...

National perspectives on a multipolar order

interrogating the global power transition

The global distribution of power is changing. But how should we make sense of this moment of transition? With the rise of new powers and the decline of seemingly unchallenged US dominance in world politics, a conventional wisdom is gaining ground that a new multipolar ...

Agents of European Overseas empires

Private Colonisers, 1450-1800

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives ...

Privatising humanity

how our essential human needs became financial assets

A powerful exposition of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets. We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are ...

US grand strategy and the Madman Theory

from Nixon to Trump

What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US grand strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon's secret Cold War ...