AI Supremacy and the Power Behind the Machines
Winner of the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
The Arctic Front of the Tri-Axis Challenge
With the bilateral U.S.-Japan partnership focused primarily on China’s threat to Taiwan, and implications for the security of Okinawa and Japan’s other southern islands...
Has the Supreme Court Redefined Tariff Power?
Supreme Court limits executive tariff authority, reshaping U.S. trade policy and separation of powers.
Citizens United: Impact of Wealthy Donors and Dark Money
The effectiveness of legislative efforts to curb dark money, the role of…
Editor's Pick
Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and author of Land Power:...
Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the...
Dillon Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she teaches in the Department...
Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis at the London School of Economics and Political Science....
Professor of African Diaspora Studies at Yale University. Author of Awakening the Ashes: An...
Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex...
Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of...
Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and Faculty Co-Director of its...
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University and Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford...
The Book Curator
Discover the Books Featured in Politics and Rights Review
What Racism Really Costs Us All
Winner of the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023).
The Limits of Data: Race, Representation, and Experimentation
Winner of the 2022 William Sanders Scarborough Prize.
The Politics of Black Death
Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award
Partner with Politics and Rights Review
Disseminate research, sponsor debates, and reach a global academic audience
- Articles published in English, French, and Spanish
- Shared with a global network of 15,000+ researchers and academics
- Millions of search impressions annually
Is the US Using Beijing’s Authoritarian Playbook?
The world has watched in horror as US President Donald Trump sets about adopting an authoritarian playbook. To understand popular concern, it is important to…
Debating Greenland: Critics, Context, and the Arctic Future
This third and final part examines the reception of Barry Scott Zellen’s work, addressing criticism, questions of interpretation, and the…
Religion in International Politics: Power and Influence
No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time.
Sacred Violence: Military AI in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
AI's role in the Israel-Palestine conflict blurs ethical lines, challenging the principles of international humanitarian law.
Microhistories and the African Past
The understanding of the African past has been revolutionised in the six decades since African nations’ wave of independence in the 1960s...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
In the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle labeled sleep “a border-land between living and not living.”
Latest Articles
AI Supremacy and the Power Behind the Machines
Winner of the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
The Arctic Front of the Tri-Axis Challenge
With the bilateral U.S.-Japan partnership focused primarily on China’s threat to Taiwan, and implications for the security of Okinawa and…
Northeast Asia’s “Tri-Axis” Challenge and the Arctic’s Future
Since Moscow’s assault on Ukraine in 2022, a tightening bilateral strategic alignment between Moscow and Beijing has generated many a…
How Institutional Cooperation Enables Intelligence Competition
A century of technological progress and economic globalization has expanded the scope and scale of intelligence competition in world politics...
Presidential Conspiracy Mongers
Conspiracy theories have been part of the human experience since the dawn of civil society. But while their appeal is…
Community Gardens and the Substantive Turn in Nonreligion
The growing number of people who identify as nonreligious is one of the most significant social changes in the contemporary…
The Politics of Sanctuary and Immigrant Rights
Urban spaces open the possibility to create new fronts of political contestation where those who traditionally lack power can carve…
Has the Supreme Court Redefined Tariff Power?
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to invalidate the administration’s sweeping tariffs under the International…
Religion in International Politics: Power and Influence
No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time.
The Rise of Illiberalism: A Threat to Liberal Democracy
Illiberalism is defined by both its opposition to and dependence on liberalism—understood as an ideology and as a democratic system...
Debating Greenland: Critics, Context, and the Arctic Future
Some Arctic scholars tend to talk almost exclusively about the North’s historical traumas, but doing so to the exclusion of…
When Scholarly Disagreement Becomes Selective Reading
I think Greenlandic activist Amarok S. Petersen’s brave protest and Greenlandic social media influencer Qupanuk Olsen’s eloquent message are worthy…
Cancel Culture and the Silencing of Arctic Dissent
I was pleased to learn last week that none other than the widely renowned lead of the North American and…
Is the Cuban Dictatorship Coming to an End?
For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has survived profound economic crises, the disappearance of strategic allies, and—more recently—systematic…
On the Religious Politics of American Borders
The border is a site of retrenchment and transcendence. Enforcement and erasure. The suspension of the law and its prosecution.…