Workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs haven’t always achieved the desired results. To make work truly fair for all, Bohnet and Chilazi argue that organizations must use rigorously researched strategies to allocate the same time and resources they would to any other facet of business.
Hacking is more than just a term for rogue programmers breaking into computer systems. Bruce Schneier thinks hacking goes well beyond the digital realm. His latest book explores the ways that society is manipulated by those seeking and exploiting loopholes.
How to galvanize leaders and policymakers to action on the world’s most pressing problems? It’s not with a list of numbers. Instead, it depends on telling compelling stories about real people.
The Chinese Communist Party rose to power thanks to a small band of young men who navigated treacherous political waters. Anthony Saich traces this rise and how it has shaped modern China.
Collective vigilantism is a global phenomenon. Based on original survey and focus group data collected during fieldwork in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Khayelitsha, South Africa, coauthors Cohen and Jung suggest that curbing collective vigilantism hinges on ensuring that state governments can provide for the basic needs of their populations.
Civil resistance happens when unarmed civilians use coordinated, nonviolent methods in response to a conflict. The practice has become a mainstay of social movements around the world, and Erica Chenoweth guides readers through its history and characteristics.
What is racism? Why should everyone be more concerned about it? What can we do to eradicate it? Robert Livingston provides readers with the tools and knowledge to confront this entrenched issue.
How should society think about trade? Mathias Risse synthesizes this complex network of human activity into a philosophical framework, one that defines right from wrong, justice from injustice, and success from failure.
The system the United States uses to elect its most powerful public official has for decades not only received little public support, but been widely criticized. Alex Keyssar outlines three primary reasons why it’s still around.
The Chinese Communist Party is profoundly influential both inside and outside China’s borders. But few know of its early history, and until recently, the most prominent narrative of its origins came from the Party itself. The recent release of two collections of documents reveals a more nuanced story than the official narrative.
Tracing the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt through Donald Trump, Joseph Nye offers an analytical toolkit for how the American public can assess the morality of past, present, and future presidential foreign policy decisions.
Ambassador Wendy Sherman takes readers inside the world of international diplomacy, through the lens of a seasoned negotiator. She describes why doing good work in her field is so difficult, and how readers can apply diplomatic skills to the challenges in their own lives.
Maya Sen and Matthew Blackwell offer a groundbreaking account of the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the presence. They examine the institution of US slavery to demonstrate how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that conditioned those beliefs have been eradicated.
Should science define what life is and what it’s for? It certainly has the capacity to, with far-reaching advances in molecular technology. Sheila Jasanoff examines flashpoints in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far.
Ferguson and Roberston reveal how parenting has helped shape some of history’s most notable people, through practices almost any parent can use. They argue that parents don’t have to be wealthy or influential to ensure their children reach their greatest potential. Instead, they need commitment and a few key strategies.
Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. Tucker lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers, technocrats, regulators, and other agents of the administrative state remain stewards of the common good and do not become over-mighty citizens.
In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration.
Stephen Goldsmith outlines a variety of operational reforms that he argues will produce better public services and more citizen trust through analytics, social engagement, and big data.
The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. Odd Arne Westad demonstrates how these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world.
How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? Jorrit De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it.