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Academic dishonesty, essay mills, and Artificial Intelligence: rethinking assessment strategies Open
This paper considers how universities should respond to the threat from academic dishonesty, including essay mills, and Artificial Intelligence undermining assessment processes, and institutional credibility. The article describes steps ta…
Who wrote this? Essay mills and assessment – Considerations regarding contract cheating and AI in higher education Open
The growing incidence of academic dishonesty (AD) involving students using commercial essay writing services (essay mills) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) risks the credibility of assessment approaches within higher education (HE) worldwid…
Geopolitics and business: the implications for management education Open
In this paper we identify the need for management education to incorporate a greater consideration of geopolitics. We do this by first of all noting some recent events that indicate the fundamental complex inter-connectedness of the geopol…
Understanding the ambition in the EU’s Strategic Compass: a case for optimism at last? Open
The quest for substance, capability, and strategic autonomy goes on – or does it? Is the objective of CSDP territorial defence and strategic autonomy, or crisis management and softer security concerns like peacekeeping, border management, …
Do or die? The UK, the EU, and internal/external security cooperation after Brexit Open
The European Union (EU) integration project is under attack from a reassertion of national sovereignty following Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis. Our analysis examines the impact that traditional forms of sovereignty and national interests …
Adapting conventional delivery to cope with large cohorts: turning seminars into workshops and changing assessment Open
Teaching a popular postgraduate political economy module to around 50 international business and environment students (mainly Chinese) had always gone well. Delivery consisted of lectures and seminars with assessment via a 3,000-word essay…
Student Engagement: Key Skills, Social Capital, and Encouraging Learner Contributions to Module Resources Open
This project involves a Masters module on political economy, taught annually to diverse cohorts studying an MSc in international business. It has generated a substantial resource of learner-created material. The opening weeks of the course…
The European Union and EUFOR Althea's contribution to a dysfunctional peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bureaucratic politics, emergent strategy? Open
This article assesses the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in the Western Balkans, with a focus on EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Althea is a military operation that conducts mainly civilian functions as well as …
CSDP and the open method of coordination: Developing the EU's comprehensive approach to security Open
How can we best describe the operation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and how can we improve policy-making in CSDP? The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is predicated on the conviction that there are clear limits to the…