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Björn Heile
This year’s edition of the annual World New Music Days by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) took place on the Faroe Islands. Alongside the host nation, the opening concert featured works by composers from South Africa, Norway, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and China.[1] In the previous year, when the organisation celebrated its […]
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Emmanuel Destenay
Months before the United States entered the war, American men, women, and children mobilized to “adopt” France’s orphans. Through a binational humanitarian relief organization known as the Fatherless Children of France Society (FCFS), Americans provided for the material needs of some 300,000 orphans across France between 1915 and 1921. Founded in 1915 by Émile Deutsch […]
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Tomas Maltby, Matúš Mišík
Even before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine put energy security at the centre of EU policy, countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) considered this issue to be crucial part of not only energy policy, but also national security. Energy Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe shows that these countries long prioritised energy security […]
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John Soboslai
In 2012, I first heard about the spate of self-immolations happening in the traditional lands of Tibet. It seemed every day more people burned themselves to death while publicly condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and praying for the Dalai Lama’s return from exile. These self-immolators were commemorated in the Tibetan Martyr’s Memorial in Dharamsala, […]
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Aditi Malik
Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]
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John Gardner, David Stewart
Not long after we submitted this book for production, Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, was published. It was something of a surprise, largely a welcome one, that it seemed to have so many references in common with the book we had just finished. The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel. She focuses on a […]
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Peter Mitchell
Southern Africa is in the news: South Africa’s recent elections have seen the ruling African National Congress lose its majority in parliament for the first time since apartheid ended in 1994, producing a much more volatile political scene, while Zimbabwe confronts ongoing economic turmoil, and an armed insurgency continues in the far north of Mozambique. […]
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Noam Reisner
Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play seeks to demonstrate that the overwhelming popularity of revenge drama in the English Renaissance is best understood in the context of the unique ethical effects it generates in its intended audience during a putative performance. Adapting Francis Bacon’s notion of revenge as a ‘kind of wild justice’, […]
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Björn Heile
This year’s edition of the annual World New Music Days by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) took place on the Faroe Islands. Alongside the host nation, the opening concert featured works by composers from South Africa, Norway, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and China.[1] In the previous year, when the organisation celebrated its […]
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Emmanuel Destenay
Months before the United States entered the war, American men, women, and children mobilized to “adopt” France’s orphans. Through a binational humanitarian relief organization known as the Fatherless Children of France Society (FCFS), Americans provided for the material needs of some 300,000 orphans across France between 1915 and 1921. Founded in 1915 by Émile Deutsch […]
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Tomas Maltby, Matúš Mišík
Even before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine put energy security at the centre of EU policy, countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) considered this issue to be crucial part of not only energy policy, but also national security. Energy Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe shows that these countries long prioritised energy security […]
Read More
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John Soboslai
In 2012, I first heard about the spate of self-immolations happening in the traditional lands of Tibet. It seemed every day more people burned themselves to death while publicly condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and praying for the Dalai Lama’s return from exile. These self-immolators were commemorated in the Tibetan Martyr’s Memorial in Dharamsala, […]
Read More
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Aditi Malik
Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]
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John Gardner, David Stewart
Not long after we submitted this book for production, Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, was published. It was something of a surprise, largely a welcome one, that it seemed to have so many references in common with the book we had just finished. The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel. She focuses on a […]
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Peter Mitchell
Southern Africa is in the news: South Africa’s recent elections have seen the ruling African National Congress lose its majority in parliament for the first time since apartheid ended in 1994, producing a much more volatile political scene, while Zimbabwe confronts ongoing economic turmoil, and an armed insurgency continues in the far north of Mozambique. […]
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Noam Reisner
Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play seeks to demonstrate that the overwhelming popularity of revenge drama in the English Renaissance is best understood in the context of the unique ethical effects it generates in its intended audience during a putative performance. Adapting Francis Bacon’s notion of revenge as a ‘kind of wild justice’, […]
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