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China’s Stance on NSG Membership Shows the Extent of India’s Challenge in the Global Nuclear Order
Amidst tensions on the Sino-Indian border, the School’s Kate Sullivan de Estrada, together with Nicola Leveringhaus of King’s College London, argues that China perceives an Indian threat in the global nuclear order https://
Dr Chaisty published a new article on presidential coalitions in Ukraine
Dr Paul Chaisty and Sviltana Chernykh have just published a new article on presidential coalitions in Ukraine.
Jennifer Holdaway speaks on environmental and social justice at Fudan University
On Monday 19 June 2017, Jennifer Holdaway gave a talk to faculty and students at Fudan University in Shanghai titled "Balancing environmental and social justice: the implications of stronger environmental protection for rural-urban inequality."
Former REES MSc Student publishes in Laboratorium
Former REES MSc student Eline Helmer publishes in the distinguished online journal Laboratorium.
Dr Chaisty published a new article on public attitudes towards nationalism in Putin’s Russia
Dr Paul Chaisty & Prof Stephen Whitefield publish a new article on public attitudes towards nationalism in Putin’s Russia.
Coraline Goron is joining the China Centre in MT17 to work with Prof Anna Lora-Wainwright supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Philippe Wiener - Maurice Anspach Foundation
She will work on a project titled: @huanjing: The New frontiers of the State and the Politics of Environmental Conflict Resolution in China
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BBC 4 Programme - The Art of Japanese Life
Just in case you missed it Alex Kerr who gave a talk here on 1st March 2017 called Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival appears in the BBC 4 programme “
Nobusuke Tokura, SVP, NTCE, represents Nissan at Routledge Series anniversary at Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University
Nobusuke Tokura, Senior Vice President of Nissan Technical Centre Europe, represented Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., at a celebration at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies on May 19th, 2017 to commemorate the 100th volume of the Institute’s Routledge Series.
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at BIICL conference on the political factors driving China’s international trade engagement with the UK and EU after the Brexit decision
Paul Irwin Crookes contributed to a conference entitled ‘Brexit, China and Other New Challenges to International Trade Law’, hosted by SOAS and co-organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London and t
A Level students visit the African Studies Centre
On 9th May, A level History students from Wexham School in Slough visited the African Studies Centre. The students are studying South African history and met Professor William Beinart, w
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Dr Kate Sullivan at Boston University
Kate Sullivan featured in a workshop and panel discussion on the theme of Modi's foreign policy at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies on 7 October.
Second Year MPhil in REES Student writes an article for the Moscow Times.
Second year MPhil in REES student, Sam Ramani, provides a counter-argument to Russia's current policy of conducting airstrikes to bolster Assad against ISIS in Syria, by arguing that ISIS can only be durably undermined through trilateral diplomacy involving Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Journal of South Asian Studies: Free Articles
A number of articles have been specially selected by Kama Maclean, Editor of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, to be free to view until 31st December 2015.
Contemporary Pakistan: A talk by Professor Matthew McCartney
Professor McCartney will today be speaking at the English-Speaking Union on the topic of Contemporary Pakistan. This follows on from his appearance last year, focussing on India. The talk takes place at 12.30 today at the Sharnbrook Hotel in Bedford.
The politics of waste management
Read Professor Barbara Harriss-White's latest article in The Hindu.
House of World Cultures
Prof Gwen Sasse was part of a transdisciplinary discussion at the House of World Cultures in Berlin on 3 October where she gave a lecture in reaction to the work by the artistic collective Slavs and Tatars. The discussion touched on issues such as the perception of time, identity, ‘the self vs.
ASEEES Convention 2015
ASEEES confers the 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award to Professors Archie Brown (Oxford University) and Alexander Rabinowitch (Indiana University).
Jenny Chan invited to talk about Chinese labor and virtual work in Estonia
Conference Program, 16-18 September 2015, Dynamics of Virtual Work, Parnu College,
University of Tartu, Estonia
The Malangs South Asia Essay Prizewinner 2015 is....
Bhumi Purohit, MSc Contemporary India 2014-15.
Our congratulations go out to Bhumi - you can read her essay below.
Prof Gwen Sasse comments on Judy Dempsey’s question of the week on the Carnegie Europe site
Prof Sasse comments on Judy Dempsey’s question of the week on the Carnegie Europe site: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=61450