Bob Brecher is an academic at the university of Brighton and founder of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. He is the author of Torture and the ticking bomb and Getting what you want: a critique of liberal morality.
The neoliberal fantasy of the world as a de-politicised marketplace has been decisive in the rise of the regressive nationalistic populism holding sway across so much of the world today.
Senior academics across the UK are taking action against the politicisation of research, in response to the announcement that Cameron's 'Big Society' is to be a research funding priority for the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Is this the beginning of a wider resistance from within the insti
Dissension over the legality of the Iraq war, and the history of western military interventions since 1945, reveals the paucity of international law's moral underpinnings. The article continues our series Lest we forget: remembering historic conflicts, openSecurity’s new editorial project in assoc
