BOOKS

The Black Sea region has once again become a significant theater of geopolitical conflict, most dramatically as it has emerged as a battlefield in Ukraine’s struggle against Russian    More >

Can the federal government actually, and beneficially, be reduced in size? That question has bedeviled US politics since the country's inception, and the gap between promises and results    More >

Jabulani Nobleman "Mzala" Nxumalo (1955—1991), who had one of the sharpest Marxist-Leninist minds of South Africa's liberation movement, was brilliant, fierce, and    More >

Spanning Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone contexts—including conflict-affected and refugee settings—Joseph Pesambili and Marcina Singh offer a critical, evidence-based    More >

Although disarmament is a longstanding feature of the international system, it is often dismissed as utopian and remains largely understudied and undertheorized. To redress this gap, the    More >

How did a profession once centered on patient care become a profit-maximizing business—one that has generated soaring costs, increasingly poor access, and healthcare outcomes far below    More >

Nizar Kabbani’s poetry speaks of love, desire, beauty, freedom, and longing with a directness that is as fresh today as when it was first written. His poems have been described as    More >

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela commissioned the first HIV household survey in South Africa, this latest data collection undertaken by the Human Sciences Research Council and its    More >

Why are so many South African children leaving the early grades unable to read or do basic arithmetic, and what does this say about how we train their teachers? Tackling these questions    More >

A shifting global order. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The emergence of an African "coup belt." Increasingly pressing environmental issues. These are just some of the    More >