Leadership in the Era of Quantum and AI

Around the world, we are facing major economic, social, and environmental challenges that cannot be solved without collaborative global leadership. At the same time, paradigm-shifting advances in technology are reshaping how we live and work, creating new opportunities while challenging long-standing practices and assumptions. Leaders across business, government, and civil society all have a role to play.

What has changed in leadership, which principles endure, and how will tomorrow’s leaders need to adapt? 

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain’s subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel?

Shifting support: Western states, the UN, and local perceptions in conflict zones

This paper examines how populations in conflict zones perceive foreign military interventions, using Mali as a case study. Based on an original survey experiment (N = 1,594), it compares support for interventions led by the UN, ECOWAS, France, and Russia, focusing on how actor identity, perceived effectiveness, and integrity shape preferences.

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India

In this presentation, we draw on the concept of uncertainty to explore the ways in which poor and predominantly low-caste villagers in India experience the state in their everyday lives. Through a focus on several social protection schemes in contemporary Tamil Nadu, we present ethnography of everyday narratives about localised encounters with bureaucratic processes and actors to illustrate what this uncertainty consists of, how it is produced, and what its effects are on the rural poor.

Post colonial capital – a genealogy

A critical examination of ‘post-colonial capitalism’ must begin by tracing the genealogy of the concept to debates about the late colonialism that post colonial capital is post. After the first decades of independent development, the study of post-colonial capital has been joined – and for many replaced - by ‘subaltern studies’, ‘Saidian post-colonial studies’, and the theses of Sanyal.

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy

Welfare policies and direct benefit transfers have been at the heart of India’s political marketplace for several decades but the longer-term history of welfare in India is surprisingly little known. Louise Tillin’s new book Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) recovers a history that is crucial for understanding the current juncture of welfare politics and political economy in India.

From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka

Despite limited empirical evidence of its effectiveness, transitional justice remains the dominant paradigm within international peacebuilding frameworks for addressing conflict-related harm. The field, which expanded significantly after the Nuremberg trials and tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has faced sustained critique for its legalism, international imposition, and marginalisation of victims—prompting calls for structural transformation.
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