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29 August 2017
This is the second of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement…
29 August 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang. 2016. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy. We chose to highlight this book for the World…
24 August 2017
This is the first of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
24 August 2017
What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to…
23 August 2017
The more people who participate in a democracy, the more democratic it becomes – or so de Tocqueville believed. But sceptics have challenged that assumption on the basis…
21 August 2017
When you find yourself doing the same thing Putin and his propaganda machine does, you’re doing something wrong. On 11-12 August, violent clashes erupted between the far-…
17 August 2017
llan Manor explores America's changing use of social media under Trump. For over a decade the State Department has relied on social media sites to counter extremist narratives…
17 August 2017
Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims by David M. Rosen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 238 pp, $90 hardcover 978-0-8135-6371-8…
16 August 2017
Emma Chippendale explores a recent conference on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State. On 19 and 20…
16 August 2017
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of independence and partition, and the enduring relevance of…