Military chaplains and religious diversity / Kim Philip Hansen. Bouddhisme et lettrés dans la Chine médiévale / édité par Catherine Despeux. Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian. Eastern Christians and their written heritage. Manuscripts, scribes and context / J.P. Monferrer-Sala; H.G.B. Teule; S. Torrallas Tovar (eds.) Crisis in the church : a study of religion in America / by Andrew M. Greeley. Guide to Buddhist temples of
Controlling the Message: A Strategic Approach to Nation Branding / Efe Sevin Decentralization and popular democracy : governance from below in Bolivia / Jean-Paul Faguet. A conflict of visions : ideological origins of political struggles / Thomas Sowell. Statebuilding and state-formation : the political sociology of intervention / edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara [e-book from ebrary] The behavioral foundations of public policy / edited by Eldar Shafir. Dispossession : the
The borders of justice / edited by Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, Ranabir Samaddar. Emergence of the political subject / Ranabir Samaddar. Making sense of media and politics : five principles in political communication / Gadi Wolfsfeld. Interpretation and method : empirical research methods and the interpretive turn / Edited by Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. The everyday life of the state : a state-in-society approach / edited by Adam White
The NATO Archives, official home to some of the most important historical documents related to the security of Europe and North America, opens its e-vaults to the general public with the launch of NATO Archives Online, a new research tool that offers declassified and publicly disclosed NATO documents. Interested in finding out more about the Soviet Union’s request to join NATO in 1954 (C-R(54)14)? Or the NATO report about the rise of
When you need a break from catching up on your reading this week, rather than going onto Facebook and then loosing focus (and time), why not try this instead? Analysis is a short documentary series on Radio 4, which looks at “the ideas and forces which shape the world we live in”. Subjects covered in episodes include Economics, Global Politics, Political Islam and Business & Finance. Presenters include journalists, academics and
Students and researchers at SOAS have recently gained access to two new databases of archival documents that are of crucial importance in the studies of Middle East modern history and politics: Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 http://www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew – the UK government’s official archive. The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the Government to preserve
Image taken from the UrduWallahs: http://urduwallahs.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/intesaab-by-faiz-ahmed-faiz/ Faiz Ahmed Faiz was one of the most prolific Urdu writers to live, he was also an active member of the Progressive Writers Movement in India. To celebrate his life and work, the Faiz Cultural Foundation are organising a one day ‘mela’ (gathering) inviting renouned intellectuals and writers to speak about politics, culture and peace. In addition to this, Pakistani and Indian artists will get the audience moving
Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding : Peace In Between : Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding / Mats Berdal, Astri Suhrke [e-book from ebrary] Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty. Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn ; with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe. Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey
Political thought in action : the Bhagavad Gita and modern India / edited by Shruti Kapila, Faisal Devji. Religious cultures in early modern India : new perspectives / edited by Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook. The magic of Bollywood : at home and abroad / edited by Anjali Gera Roy. Adi Parva : churning of the ocean / Amruta Patil. Indian diaspora in the Caribbean / [editor], Kumar Mahabir. Understanding
Following several high-profile elections in the SOAS regions, the blog Elections in the News contains links to opinion and debate and is curated by an Academic Support Librarian at LSE. Photo from Flickr: “In the news” Some rights reserved by RambergMediaImages.
