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‘The Eyes of the World Are Upon You’: The Role of International Organisations in the Suez Crisis
Introduction Gamal Abdel Nasser savoured the moment: it is 26 July 1956 and he has just announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal....
Asa Breuss-Burgess
40 min read
Djokovic, the Australian Open, idiots and Cov-idiots—what would Nietzsche say?
Had any of the players who competed for the inaugural tennis grand slam of 2022 in Melbourne been complete (i.e. sovereign,...
Dmitri Safronov
15 min read
Unfiltered, Candid, and Interdisciplinary: Reflections on the ‘Human values and global response in the Covid-19 pandemic’ 2022 Tanner Lectures
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are prestigious gatherings of globally renowned scholars across the humanities and the sciences....
Clare Hall Tanner Lecture Working Group
20 min read
Amir Tataloo, Beyond Resistance and Propaganda: The Appropriation of Iranian Rap Music and the Negotiation of its Legality
Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...
Casper Alexander Sanderson
35 min read
Democracy, Constitutionalism, and the Commonwealth: In Conversation with Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Currently Professor of Government at King’s College London, Professor Vernon Bogdanor is a leading expert in British constitutional...
Teresa Turkheimer
25 min read
Stand Up for Singapore: Music and National Identity in a Cosmopolitan City-state
Modern-day Singapore prides itself as a ‘global city’ with a commendable level of economic stability as a result of its sustained...
Nicholas Ong
29 min read
War from the Verkhovna Rada: In Conversation with Mariya Ionova (MP)
Mariya Ionova wears many hats. She is a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Credit and a...
Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read
The Thin End of the Wedge: How Trans Rights Have Emerged as a Keystone in the Feminist Politics on Bodily Autonomy
As of this writing, an Alabama law that would have made it a felony in the state to provide a teenager with gender-affirming healthcare,...
Katherine Cross
17 min read
Political Messianism, Redemption of the Past, and Historical Time
It would be pointless to list all the issues driving so much of society to take on a pessimistic view of our near future and view us as...
Max Klein
35 min read
All Form but No Substance? A Critical Examination of the ENP’s Success in Promoting Democracy and Good Governance in the EU’s Neighbourhood
As a key European Union (EU) foreign relations instrument, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) governs the relations between the...
Dilys Tam So Yin
18 min read
Five Decades of Egyptian Politics: In Conversation with Dr Mostafa El Feki
Dr Mostafa El Feki is Director of the New Library of Alexandria. He has been a Professor of Political Science at the American University...
Asseel Darwish
7 min read
Nagorno-Karabakh: War Fails to Resolve the Conflict
Imagine Boris Johnson ordering the bombing of Edinburgh because the Scots voted for independence in a referendum, or the British...
Hratch Tchilingirian
9 min read
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Philosophy: In Conversation with Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...
Maria Stella Sendas Mendes
10 min read
A Symphony of Defiance: How Music Spearheads Sikh and Punjabi Articulations of Political Resistance
Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1] Over...
Jeevan Singh Riyait
8 min read
Capturing the Truth
On 11 September 2001, as I walked to the Rome bureau of The New York Times , I stopped in a café on the Campo di Fiori to see why a...
James Hill
11 min read
Freedom of Expression in Belarus after the 2020 Election
auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp...
Volha Siakhovich
16 min read
New Technology, Ancient Battle
Since the detection of massive Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election, there has been a morass of studies...
Askold Krushelnycky
11 min read
Theory and Politics under Technofeudalism: In Conversation with Yanis Varoufakis
As a theorist, economist, politician, author, and co-founder of two transnational democratic and progressive movements, Yanis Varoufakis...
Teresa Turkheimer
29 min read
John Hume: The Achievement and Limitations of a Man in War
I have not read all the tributes that have been made to John Hume since his death in 2020, but I doubt if many—perhaps any—of them have...
Peter Brooke
20 min read
The Twenty-First Century: A Bumpy Ride
Introduction COVID-19 should not have struck us so unawares: similar viruses, SARS and MERS, had emerged within the last 20 years, and...
Lord Martin Rees
18 min read
The Many Forms of Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 176 million confirmed cases and over 3.8 million confirmed deaths. These numbers are likely...
Amar Sarkar
25 min read
The Visit of Czarevitch Nicholas Alexandrovitch to Lahore, January 1891
The below is adapted from Fakir Aijazuddin's 2021 book Imperial Curiosity: Early Views of Pakistan, 1845-1906 . Introduction The...
Fakir Aijazuddin
19 min read
John Morley and India: Anti-Imperialist Thought in Practice
The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...
Matthew Fisher
31 min read
Arts, Excellence, and Warranted Self-Respect
Funding for the arts is quite frequently commended by political philosophers and political pundits—whom I shall call ‘edificatory...
Matthew H Kramer
44 min read
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