Putin is following a strategy used by other imperial countries, particularly 19th-century China and Japan.
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To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
Expert background on Haiti, where President Jovenel Moïse’s July 7 killing is the latest in the Caribbean nation’s long list of struggles.
Anzac soldiers wrote poetry about body lice, shared treatment tips and experimented with new ways of bathing.
Although many modern people tend to see ‘magic’ and ‘religion’ as separate, magic was actually integral to the development of Christianity.
The fact that the colonial system was essentially a commercial expedition meant that the outcome was the creation of corporate entities rather than nation states.
JG Farell’s novel mocks the delusions and vanity of imperial attitudes that persisted even as the empire collapsed.
Suffering a pandemic and the aftermath of a war that killed 50 million, the world in 1920 faced a turning point as it negotiated a new political order. As today, the key issue was racial inequality.
Captain Cook’s sailors traded nails for sex, but the history of intimate encounters and their impact on women throughout the Pacific is still largely ignored.
Botany was an integral feature of Britain’s colonial and imperial ambitions.
In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.
Compared to other politicians who tend to be indirect and evasive, Nkrumah was direct, explicit and assertive.
What role does Marxist theory about the state play in modern China?
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
The UK has been humiliated by a judgment that offers hope to other nations looking to unburden themselves from the legacy of imperialism.
Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.
The UK is increasingly isolated in its claim to the Chagos Islands. If an international court finds in Mauritius’s favour, the implications could be huge.
A new project takes a different look at the role of oceans.
An African court with international criminal jurisdiction which has been debated but never been put into operation could be an option if Africa withdraws from the ICC.
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This episode of the In Depth Out Loud podcast outlines the importance of finding a way to remove the inequalities promoted by modern science.
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Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Fellow in International Law, Lund University
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Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Regents' Professor Emeritus of English, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in South Asian history, University of Exeter
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Teaching Associate, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
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Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Criminal and Military law and the Law of Armed Conflict at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of East Asian History, University of York