We publish evidence-based opinion pieces from our Fellows and other academics, researchers and practitioners.
The crudity with which an open aggressive war trespasses on the core grounding principle of the United Nations has raised questions about how to prosecute war crimes or the crime of aggression.
Nicola McEwen of Edinburgh University, against a pluralist conception of nationhood, places under scrutiny the unity of the United Kingdom and identifies powerful forces of disunity threatening the whole.
Professor Richard Caplan, from Oxford University, offers observations on a normative approach to the “new cold war”, questioning cooperation between like-minded democracies as a solution to issues of global governance.
Professor Michael Gordon, from Liverpool University, emphasises the need of going beyond the binary distinction between Parliamentary Sovereignty and Federalism in discussing the unity of the UK.
Professor Christopher McCrudden, from Queen’s University Belfast, argues that trust in the Union has significantly disappeared judged by a set of criteria: consent, material self-interest, individual and collective rights, and emotional attachment.
Professor Alison Young, from Cambridge University, provides a possible answer to the English question – the role of England in a devolved United Kingdom.
