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The blog will be taking a short break over Easter, so to keep you going here’s 5 popular blog posts from the year so far.
1. The invasion of Iraq did many things, putting young people off politics wasn’t one of them.
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War …
The Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies is now an institutional columnist for the Global Policy Journal. The second post in the series comes from Caryl Thompson and looks at the announcement of a Declaration of Human Rights by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at its recent summit held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November, 2012. This announcement …
Dr Will Jennings is a regular contributor to our ‘Polling Observatory’. He blogs over at Olymponomics.
The private firm at the centre of the row about Olympic security, G4S, has been widely criticised and some of the stories that are appearing from people who received training depict a chaotic process, but a number of questions remain about whether this …
In February, the Annual Dearing Higher Education Conference 2012 was held at the University of Nottingham entitled The Business and Growth Benefits of Higher Education. At the meeting, the Director-General of the CBI, John Cridland, demanded that business not only co-operate with universities in the setting-up of spin-off companies but also be more closely involved in the actual shaping …
‘Through their diverse and dynamic activities all over the globe this special family of more than 200,000 people use their education to make an impact. They bring great credit to this University and we are rightly proud of them.’ - David Greenaway, Vice Chancellor
University of Nottingham Alumni are world-changing people and in June the University honoured a small …
As the grandees of the transnational capitalist class of the G20 prepared to meet in the municipality of Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja Califonia Sur to discuss global economic crisis, a rather different VIP came to address students, academics, and activists in Mexico. This was the figure of Camila Vallejo, Vice President of the Federación de Estudiantes de la …
Given the current Eurozone crisis and economic turmoil, perhaps we are all dreaming about how to get to a utopia. Dr Lucy Sargisson brings us up to speed in 60 seconds…
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Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico’s greatest novelists – if not the greatest – has died this week aged 83. Renowned for novels such as La región mas transparente (Where the Air is Clear, 1958), La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962) and the epic Terra Nostra (Our Land, 1975), Carlos Fuentes’ social function continued right …
The 21st century has already borne witness to new forms of insecurity including the instability caused by the Arab Spring and piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Tackling such ‘non-traditional’ security challenges is essential to the economic well being of both the UK and China. Supplies of gas and oil to these countries pass through the Gulf of Aden …
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