Politicians and Naval Strategy: On the ‘Sea Blindness’ of Statesmen
05/09/2024
Editors of Sailors, Statesmen and the Implementation of Naval Strategy tell us about the ‘sea blindness’ of politicians throughout history.
Category: Politics and Economics
The Origins of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
04/10/2023
The broad features of the political process of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) are well known. They are generally assumed to begin with Decision 115 at… READ MORE
Exploring The Freest Country In The World
29/09/2023
This is a story of a different GDR from the one that tends to get remembered and talked about. It is a story of a free GDR. 1989-1990 was a… READ MORE
The origins of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
23/05/2023
Volume 1 For some reason, historians have largely seen fit to avoid the subject of African human rights and not least the 1981 African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter. The… READ MORE
Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy in Britain
09/09/2019
Let’s be clear: this is NOT another Brexit book. Instead of picking over what’s happening now, Adrian Williamson provides an invaluable guide to how Britain reached this point, tracing the… READ MORE
The Impossibilities of Hillary Clinton as a Self-Made Woman
12/10/2018
To follow up Wednesday’s behind-the-scenes interview with the editors of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election, here’s a sneak peek into the… READ MORE
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: An interview with the editors
10/10/2018
Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell, editors of the just-published Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester… READ MORE
Lord Liverpool
13/04/2018
20 April sees the publication of Lord Liverpool: A Political Life, by William Anthony Hay (Associate Professor of history at Mississippi State University). If you are wondering who he was,… READ MORE
7 Books to Read on Maritime History