E. H. Carr and F. A. Hayek: the road to international order

Adam David Morton | February 16, 2026

What does Hayek have to say that may interest approaches to the political economy of state formation and thinking on ‘the international’ today?

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US military invasion of Venezuela: How did we get here?

Emma To | February 11, 2026

Firstly, what has happened?

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped and flown to the US through a US military operation which involved attacks on the Venezuelan military bases in Fuerte Tiuna [...]

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Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence

Christian Caiconte | January 27, 2026

From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and violence?

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What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?

Adam David Morton | January 25, 2026

More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?

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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated

Oliver Dodd | January 20, 2026

Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation was produced?

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Review of Southern Interregnum

Kevin Gray | January 1, 2026

Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

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Novel Reading in 2025

Adam David Morton | December 29, 2025

So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list below.

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