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Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Tunisia meetings
11 February 2019
Tunisia is widely seen as the one country that, having experienced a ‘people power’ revolution in the Arab Spring in 2011, succeeded in developing and maintaining a democratic constitutional system thereafter. Yet...
'After Exit': UN Peacekeeper project awarded ESRC funding
04 February 2019
Professor Richard Caplan and colleagues have been awarded nearly £900,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for a new project on the aftermath of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping missions - assessing how...
Professor Desmond King elected to NASI
30 January 2019
Professor Desmond King has been elected as a Fellow to the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Ukraine: president or parliament?
21 January 2019
Professor Paul Chaisty argues that Ukraine's current political problems "will not be solved by a new executive structure", instead suggesting that legislators should focus on the balance of power between political...
'Crime-Terror Nexus from Below' awarded ESRC funding
17 January 2019
Dr Raphaël Lefèvre has been awarded £450,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to support his new project, ‘The Crime-Terror Nexus from Below: Criminal and Extremist Practices, Networks and Narratives...Events View all ›
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Military Intelligence in the Era of Great Power War
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Caesars, Scots and Utilitarians
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It’s not you, it’s us! What the Brexit divorce tells us about the EU’s own weaknesses
According to social media in Russia, “Brexit” has just assumed a new meaning: you say goodbye, but never leave. Vasilij Petrovich has drunk half a bottle of vodka, broken some...