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...University Press: The essence of presidential leadership Meet some unlikely leaders The impact of next Tuesday has implications beyond the two shining seas that bookend America. What, for example, are Germans hoping for as America chooses its next leader? Expectations are not high: Helmut Kopp, 46, is a senior partner in a business consultancy near Frankfurt and is...

...University of Florida, there’s an annual arts festival in full swing right now, but it’s also home to the Gatornationals, one of the nation’s premier drag-racing meets. Driving between the two along Interstate 75, you can see down-at-heel trailer parks and upscale horse-breeding estates. It’s a land of contrasts. This diversity explains why Florida has been beset...

...universal that states have begun to improvise enforcement rules beyond those included in the Chemical Weapons Convention, which has been signed by every country in the world except Egypt, South Sudan and North Korea. The development of this new norm means that justification is now available to any country that wishes to unilaterally punish another country for its use of...

...University informed his ground-breaking work on culture. Leonardo Sciascia was from Racalmuto, a small working-class town located deep in the hills of the Sicilian province of Agrigento, where his father worked in the sulphur mines. That environment, its people, land and territory, remained an enduring preoccupation in his work. It was a place he never really left, apart...

...University. Before becoming an MP she worked for JP Morgan. Whilst her successor Sajid Javid came from a working class background, his early working life was with Deutsche Bank. Whilst these policies which are inherently hostile to sections of the working class are presented in terms of unavoidable decisions to balance the books, they are in fact borne from a well of...