Author profile: Curtis Large

Curtis Large is an independent researcher working in public affairs. He holds an MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and an MA in European Politics from the University of Dundee. His interests are in nationalism and territoriality within the context of European integration.

Opinion – The ‘Pizza Effect’ on Nations and Nationalism

Curtis Large • Oct 26 2024 • Articles

As re-enculturation retains its ability to shape collective imaginaries, it also offers itself to the durability of nations and nationalism.

Review – On Nationalism

Curtis Large • Feb 16 2024 • Features

This essay collection, edited by Sassoon, portrays Hobsbawm’s search to understand and evaluate nationalism through the ages, but could do with more contextual analysis.

Opinion – Britain and the American South: A Special Relationship?

Curtis Large • Aug 15 2023 • Articles

While the UK and the US South seek to improve understandings of one another’s society and politics, historical attempts have proved fruitless.

Opinion – Geoff Crowther or The Birth and Politics of a Hippie Worldview

Curtis Large • Jun 6 2023 • Articles

With a background influenced by pacifism and May 68 socialism, Crowther had assembled a potent worldview which was filtering into the minds of travellers throughout the world.

Microstates and the EU: Identity, Policymaking and the Quest for an Independent Future

Curtis Large • May 21 2023 • Articles

Because Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino are on the periphery of Brussels’ institutional mechanisms, policymaking opportunities are limited.

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