Caliph, Sultan, and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr-al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
North Korea is in the midst of a Covid catastrophe
The Annual Jan-Georg Deutsch Debate - Motion: The myth is more fundamental than the fact in collective memory
The annual Jan-Georg Deutsch Debate is hosted by the Transnational and Global History Seminar in honor of Professor Jan-Georg Deutsch. This year's debate is hosted in conjunction with the release of The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa (eds. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Moritz Mihatsch and Michelle Sikes), a Gedenkschrift in honor of Jan-Georg Deutsch.
Proponent: **Dr Moritz Mihatsch**, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The British University in Egypt
Opponent: **Dr Rouven Kunstmann**, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Erfurt
Proponent: **Dr Moritz Mihatsch**, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The British University in Egypt
Opponent: **Dr Rouven Kunstmann**, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Erfurt
Book launch: 'Butler to the world: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals' with Oliver Bullough
In this event chaired by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Oliver Bullough will be discussing his best selling and critically acclaimed book, 'Butler to the World'.
In it, Bullough reveals how the UK has become a hospitable location for oligarchs and kleptocrats from all over the world - a place where they can hide their monies, build respectable reputations on the back of philanthropy and party donations, and influence those in power. From professional facilitators to politicians, Bullough’s book asks searing questions about today's political and economic life in the United Kingdom.
In it, Bullough reveals how the UK has become a hospitable location for oligarchs and kleptocrats from all over the world - a place where they can hide their monies, build respectable reputations on the back of philanthropy and party donations, and influence those in power. From professional facilitators to politicians, Bullough’s book asks searing questions about today's political and economic life in the United Kingdom.
What Really Happened in the Nineties?: Hong Kong
China has avoided the grim US Covid toll. But at what cost?
Free: Coming of Age at the end of History with Lea Ypi
Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
Getting older: Demographic challenges in South East Europe
As South East European populations grow older, demography is becoming a key topic in political and academic debates in the region. From Zagreb to Athens, all three main determinants of the age structure of a population – low fertility, growing life expectancy, and net emigration – are pointing to an increasingly unsustainable share of elderly citizens with serious ramifications for the future of South East European economies and societies.
The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo
This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do so at an international level. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in comparison to other international actors from 1999 to 2008 and moves on to analyse the EU's role in norm diffusion in the post-independence period (2008–2020).