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Europe's nuclear dilemma deterrence without the United States?
No full textLSE Fellows Dr Jacklyn Majnemer and Dr Patrick Gill-Tiney explore the dilemmas around European nuclear deterrence since Trump’s election
Care without compliance - building transfeminist futures
No full textTrans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift explores how transfeminist methods and practices can build futures that are more equal, free and inclusive for all. Clare Hemmings writes that the authors’ brilliant, nuanced embrace of community, care and modes of resistance offers radical ways of realising more liveable futures
Child rights impact assessment: a policy tool for a rights-respecting digital environment
No full textBusinesses that develop digital products and services often anticipate generic users, paying insufficient attention to the needs and rights of children who may use or be impacted by their practices. This article investigates the potential of child rights impact assessment (CRIA) as a policy tool to protect and respect children’s rights in the tech sector. The methods draw on desk research, interviews with product designers and developers, and a review of how child rights impact assessment is currently deployed by tech businesses. The results show that both regulation and advocacy have increased businesses’ attention to children’s rights, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Good practice is most evident as a response to data protection regulation introduced by governments, as well as by telecommunications companies in response to advocacy by UNICEF and others. However, the findings also reveal multiple barriers to the use of child rights impact assessment, and only partial implementation of the tool in practice. We conclude with recommendations for greater multistakeholder efforts to increase its application and effectiveness, so as to facilitate children’s rights in the digital environment
Asset allocation and governance at the Imperial Tobacco pension fund in the mid-20th century
No full textThis case is concerned with exploring the relationship between the practice of management as an internal set of rules and management as interacting and advocating standards that relate to external rules relating to governance. It highlights the reasons that managers engage with professional standards as part of their management practice. More generally, the case is an opportunity to consider cultural changes in the approach to governance
TRQ and Rio Tinto: the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine and the obsolescing bargain in Mongolia
No full textThe Gobi Desert’s Oyu Tolgoi mine is one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits, which has the potential to contribute one-third of Mongolia’s GDP. The Canadian company Turquoise Hill Resources and the Mongolian government have faced challenges since the 2009 Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement. Shareholders were initially optimistic because of rising copper demand, but mine development has been plagued by cost overruns, unclear agreement impacts and government-investor disputes. Senior management are focused on navigating these challenges, which may involve renegotiations or selling the mine. The main issue the case study examines is how to reach a long-term agreement that prevents disputes and ensures project success
Illusions of control: dilemmas in managing U.S. proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
No full textIllusions of control: dilemmas in managing U.S. proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By Erica L Gaston. New York: Columbia University Press. 2024. 424pp. £117.00. Isbn978 0 23121 012 6. Available as e-book
Embedded interactions and selective disclosure: network effects on conversations aboard Skylab
No full textHow do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We employ embedded interactions to analyze the case of conflicts between the astronauts and ground control during NASA's Skylab 4 missions. Our analysis reveals how anticipation of eventual interactions between uninvolved actors led the crew to withhold important information from ground control, information that would have been shared with ground control if the astronauts had been able to prevent its future transmission. Skylab astronauts were heavily concerned with how their actions would be framed through these chains of interactions and eventually interpreted by Congress and the general public. The astronauts' attempts to save face by controlling information about themselves at these distant sites led them to deviate from protocol and produced the conflicts for which Skylab 4 is best known
Routledge handbook on climate crisis communication
No full textThis Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication. As climate change has moved further up the political agenda, the challenge of how to communicate the scientific, social, and political aspects of the climate emergency is of increasing interest to researchers, NGOs, governments, and policymakers at national and international levels. The Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication provides a concise and expert summary of this growing field, explaining the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years and describing the origins and connections to broader topics, including risk perception; environmental journalism; social media; and climate justice and activism. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is divided into seven key parts, besides the Introduction chapter: Part One: Conceptual Challenges Part Two: Methodological Considerations Part Three: Communicating Climate Science across Cultures Part Four: Journalism and News Reportage Part Five: Activism and Social Movements Part Six: Audiences and Popular Culture Part Seven: Future Directions Taking stock of the current landscape of climate change communication and helping to shape the field of inquiry going forward, this is a go-to guide for established and newly interested researchers, government and policymaking bodies, and students and their instructors
Enemy of justice? Secrecy in domestic war crimes trials in Serbia
No full textSecrecy is an essential element in war crimes trials, as it protects vulnerable individuals and sensitive information, ensuring trials can proceed effectively. However, secrecy often conflicts with principles of public justice, undermining the legitimacy and societal acceptance of trial processes and judgements. This, in turn, can limit the transformative potential of war crimes trials for post-conflict societies. We examine this tension between secrecy and publicity in the war crimes jurisprudence of Serbian courts. Drawing on an analysis of 164 final judgements issued between 1999 and 2019, we show that courts employ anonymization excessively and inconsistently. We document a typology of redaction techniques–including electronic patches, manual redactions, and coded substitutions–that are applied inconsistently not only across courts but also within individual documents. Similar types of information (such as names of defendants and victims, addresses, or crime locations) are sometimes redacted and sometimes left visible, reflecting the absence of harmonized standards. To assess the broader impact of these practices, we supplement our analysis with fieldwork, including interviews with legal practitioners and civil society actors. We reveal how excessive and erratic redactions of judgements obstruct transparency, impair the capacity of civil society to analyze trials, and constrain efforts to foster critical engagement with war crimes. Our study also reveals the limits of empirical methods when applied to irregularly redacted materials. The inconsistent anonymization precluded the use of advanced statistical techniques and constrained the scope of analysis. This has broader implications for research design in transitional justice, particularly when relying on digital data sources in environments with weak information governance. We conclude that reform is needed to standardize redaction practices, and that digitization alone cannot substitute for transparency. War crimes trials can only fulfil their social and historical function if protective secrecy is balanced with meaningful public access to court records
Why DeepSeek shouldn’t have been a surprise
No full textThe Chinese startup DeepSeek shocked many when its new model challenged established American AI companies despite being smaller, more efficient, and significantly cheaper. However, management theory — specifically disruption theory — could have predicted that a challenger like this would inevitably come along. After all, disruptive innovation is all about low-cost alternatives that aren’t cutting-edge but perform adequately for many users. This, it seems, is exactly how DeepSeek has created the shockwave that it has. DeepSeek isn’t sui generis. It’s operating along similar lines to many other Chinese, which differ from their American counterparts in two significant ways: 1) They often use cheaper hardware and leverage an open (and therefore cheaper) architecture to reduce cost, and 2) many Chinese LLMs are customized for domain-specific (narrower) applications and not generic tasks. Management theory also offers insight on how companies should proceed from here. On the one hand, a benefit of having multiple LLM models deployed within an organization is diversification of risk. On the other hand, a benefit of working with a single supplier is reduced administrative costs and better understanding of capabilities on both sides of the partnership. Prior management theories also suggest a third possibility: plural governance, which involves using a combination of external suppliers and internal developers to leverage an emerging technology