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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 8 Jun 2023
    Ahmed Al-Ahmed, Ilias Bantekas

    THE GLOBALISATION OF CONTRACT LAWS AND THE RISE OF MIDDLE EASTERN LEGAL SYSTEMS

    Sophisticated legal systems compete with each other at a variety of levels. The prevalence of choice of law and choice of forum clauses favouring one state and its laws necessarily means its courts will entertain more cases in the future and there will be an increase in lawyers trained in its legal system. This in […]

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  • 6 Jun 2023
    Mehran Kamrava

    “The Islamic Republic’s Staying Power: Politics and Institutions in Iran”

    What are the sources of state strength in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the central question that animates this book. The current Iranian state, established in the aftermath of the 1978-1979 revolution, has proven remarkably resilient in the face of multiple challenges from within and from the outside. Some of these challenges have […]

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  • 6 Jun 2023
    Quinn Curtis, Ian Ayres

    Guardrailing Retirement Choices for Investor Success

    It’s hard to believe, but an increasing number of retirement plans are allowing employees to invest their 401(k) saving in non-conventional assets – including crypto currency funds and meme stocks.  On the one hand, limited exposure to esoteric investments can provide some diversification benefits, on the other hand, the investors who are interested in these […]

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  • 5 Jun 2023
    Michelle Tusan

    The First World War and the Middle Eastern Front

    The First World War was a war of empires that started in the Balkans and ended in the Middle East. Yet, some historians still see this war as a mostly European story. Mapping the different fronts of the war together challenges this perspective: I wrote The Last Treaty, in part, to understand why war historiography […]

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  • 31 May 2023
    James F. Brennan

    That “Olde” Story: Faith and Reason

    Blog #2 in the, Psychology and its Antecedents, series In the previous blog about the emergence of psychology at the expense of the traditional intellectual provinces of the older disciplines of religion and philosophy, one important question centers on two sources of truth. Is there an equivalence between knowledge derived from faith and knowledge derived […]

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  • 31 May 2023
    Claire Andrieu

    When War Knocks on the Door: What Do Civilians Do?

    WW2 Comparative History from BelowWritten by Claire Andrieu Unlike the objects of its title, the subject of this book did not fall from the sky. I did not set out to write a comparative history of the reception of downed airmen in Britain, France and Germany during World War II. The story of When Men […]

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  • 29 May 2023
    Seth Bernard

    Reframing Rome and Italy during the early Roman expansion

    What are the effects of empire-building, and how can we study them? With Making the Middle Republic, my two co-editors and I present a collection of papers emphasizing the importance of the fourth and third centuries BCE to the broader development of Republican Rome and Italy. This period saw the earliest phases of Roman imperial […]

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  • 26 May 2023
    Karine Varley

    No double game but a double bind for Vichy

    In the many books, articles, debates and polemics about the Vichy French regime during the Second World War, one question remains curiously absent: why didn’t Vichy collaborate with Fascist Italy? Perhaps it’s because the answer seems obvious. After the fall of France in June 1940, Vichy chose to collaborate with Hitler’s regime because it believed […]

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