Month: July 2014

Peace conjures uncertainty: one man’s peace might spell another man’s anguish. The infamous Munich deal in 1938, for example, appeased England and France, but it spelt Czechoslovakia’s downfall: if the German chancellor had kept his word and not invaded Poland, who would have cared about old Prague’s eventual conquest! In ...

Academics, particularly abroad, are being increasingly pressured to publish ever more papers every year. Their job, or rather the likelihood of finding another after the current contract expires, depends on the statistics where the key performance indicator is the number of papers published. The situation took a turn to the ...