History, Learning, and International Relations
Receptivity to proposed lessons is greatest when they meet multiple psychological and political needs, and their appeal has little to do with historical accuracy.
Thinking Global Podcast – George Lawson (Part One)
George Lawson speaks about conceptualising revolution, comparative historical sociology, anatomies of revolution and more, in the first of a two-part series on Revolution.
Thinking Global Podcast – Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon (Part Two)
Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan speak further about their award winning volume.
Thinking Global Podcast – Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon (Part One)
Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan speak about their award winning anthological volume.
Opinion – Geoff Crowther or The Birth and Politics of a Hippie Worldview
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.
Interview – Mark Hurst
Mark Hurst discusses human rights debates during the Cold War and their impact on today’s relations between Russia and the West.
Review Feature – Re-examining IPE
The two books in this feature provide fresh perspectives on International Political Economy by questioning and advocating a shift away from established economic and historical narratives.
Interview – Manan Ahmed
Manan Ahmed discusses colonial epistemes, Hindustan, memory and Partition, and decolonising the university.
Review – The Postcolonial African State in Transition
Amy Niang’s book takes up the urgent task of our collective postcolonial moment: to trace and critique historical trajectories, while finding in these the possibility to extract and abstract a plurality of modes of being, so as to create future imaginaries.
Interview – Gabriel Passetti
Gabriel Passetti highlights the historic role of the British Empire in Latin America and New Zealand, and inter-American relations from the 19th century to the present day.
