Dr Steve Long, Senior Lecturer in Modern US Foreign Policy, asks ‘what next for US-Cuban relations?’
What now for America?
Academics from our Politics and International Relations programme offer their initial thoughts on Donald Trump winning the 2016 US Presidential election.
The election of Donald Trump and our wishful Utopias
On the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, Dr David Hitchcock considers his vision of a perfect society compared to US President-elect Trump’s ideal version of a Utopian society.
‘Is it all the media’s fault?’ – post-truth politics and the media in a digital age
Dr Agnes Gulyas, Reader in Digital Transformations, looks at the role the media play in politics, focusing on the current US Presidential election.
Cartography and the Kuznetsov
As a Russian naval task force enters the English Channel, Dr Alexander Kent, Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science and Martin Davis, University Instructor, explain that the maps and charts they will be using owe to a long tradition of mapping Britain in secret.
The nuclear Donald Trump: A peculiarly British anxiety?
Ahead of the US election on 8 November, Kevin Ruane, Professor of Modern History, reflects on the nuclear anxieties associated with a possible Trump presidency.
Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature were made for each other
Dr Gavan Lennon, Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, reflects on Bob Dylan’s cultural and political importance.
Propaganda mapping and Brexit
Dr Alexander Kent, Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, comments on the use of maps as propaganda tools, by the Vote Leave and the Remain campaigns, in the lead up to the EU Referendum.
With controversies ignored, was Rio 2016 an “opiate for the middle classes”?
Professor Mike Weed, Professor of Applied Policy Sciences and Head of the School of Human & Life Sciences, comments on BBC Sport’s coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.