Faculti Faculti

Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin Douglass offers an account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.

When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton discusses the origin of Cannes as a resort to a chance visit in 1834 by Lord Brougham.

Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.

Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.

A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governance, arguing that policymakers can strengthen these institutions by leveraging network effect pressures.

Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces.