The Arrogance of Power: Senator Fulbrights Concept and Todays World
Speakers: Adam Roberts
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From the Arab Spring to the Syrian War: Regional, international and humanitarian impact
Speakers: Louise Fawcett, Hugo Slim
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Forgotten Ally China's World War II, 1937-1945
An Economist Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year “A book that has long cried out to be written.” — Observer (UK), Books of the Year In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese ...
Rethinking Social Distinction
The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past.
Measuring Peace Consolidation
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today.
With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's new book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict.
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 - The Struggle for Survival
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today.
Juridification and its Discontents: How Neoliberal Legality has Reframed Dissent and How Some Social Movements Are Responding
PANEL 4: Law in Social Movement Resistance to Neoliberalism
Chair: Matthew Craven (SOAS, University of London)
Speaker: Honor Brabazon (University of Oxford)
New Assemblages of Resistance in Egypts Revolution: Conceptualising Legalities, Illegalities, and the States Violence
PANEL 4: Law in Social Movement Resistance to Neoliberalism
Chair: Matthew Craven (SOAS, University of London)
Speaker: Mai Taha (University of Toronto)
Can Human Rights Law be Used to Ensure a Right to Housing? Or Does it in Fact Pay Lip-Service to it? ...
PANEL 4: Law in Social Movement Resistance to Neoliberalism
Chair: Matthew Craven (SOAS, University of London)
Speaker: Paul Heron (City University London)