‘It’s that moment in Macbeth when Duncan says… ‘There’s no art/To find the mind’s construction in the face”.’
So suggested Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform Chris Bryant … Read the rest
Month: November 2013
Scrutinize the curriculum of nearly any security studies postgraduate degree programme and you will invariably discover a litany of module options related to warfare, military strategy and intelligence, defence … Read the rest
By Pauline Eadie
On 8 November 2013 super typhoon Yolanda (or Haiyan as it is known outside the Philippines) cut a swathe through the Visayan region. Yolanda was one of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall and the damage left in her wake was catastrophic. At the time of writing more than 7000 are missing or dead, vast areas of agricultural land has been devastated and whole towns have been destroyed. International media reports have focused on the city of Tacloban, which was virtually demolished by the storm. Yolanda has been a public relations disaster for Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, this short article will examine why.
1st Nottingham Postgraduate Conference on Security and Conflict 2014
The organising committee would like to invite you to 1st Nottingham Postgraduate Conference on Security and Conflict, hosted by the … Read the rest
In April 2009 the Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan had this to say at the China-based Boao Forum: “I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled…If we are not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.” He went on to criticise protests in Hong Kong and the generally unruly tone of the place.
That’s why Jackie Chan is one of my favourite political philosophers. In a way that no drone from the school of dialectical materialism could have encapsulated, he explained the pressing need for authoritarian guardianship over the Chinese people (on the mainland and elsewhere). The dialectic always gets karate-chopped with Jackie.
I am delighted to announce my acceptance of an invitation from Professor Matthew Watson and Dr. Chris Clarke, both at the Department of Politics and International Studies at … Read the rest
When, in December 1895, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière introduced their 50 second long shot of a steam locomotive approaching the train station in the French coastal town of La … Read the rest
In Huxley’s Brave New World Shakespeare’s works have become banned books. In the words of the Controller of the Brave New World: ‘civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or … Read the rest
As revealed on For the Desk Drawer earlier, an updated paperback edition of my book Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development has now been … Read the rest