India and Pakistan.

At once the serving president, the official candidate of the right, the owner of an enormous family fortune and the commander ...

Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’.

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, new states have been emerging in fast-moving sequence—whether through the secession of formerly ‘autonomous’ territories, or through the reunification of ...

In ‘the standard of civilization’, Perry Anderson convincingly demonstrates that the notion of international law commonly appealed to today was developed by the European powers largely to serve their ...

The representation of the unadorned human body by artists—the transformation of the naked into the nude—was reckoned among the highest goals of European art from the Renaissance until well into the ...

The elections of June 1971 in Iceland, which brought a self-proclaimed left-wing government to power, caused some initial alarm in imperialist circles. Iceland is a key outpost of nato, and us troops ...

The sheer number of recent lawsuits and controversies concerning various forms of copyright infringement—ranging from film scripts and art to pop music—indicates that ‘intellectual property’ and the ...

Whilst hybridity is far from a stable concept, a watered-down or weak version of it has gained currency in humanities departments and art schools. In this version of hybridity, Bhabha and Hall’s basic ...

History is more complex than what appears in the Olympian view from great arches. Closer to the ground we may find ups and downs in British history over three hundred years—periods of rapid industrial ...

War politics, politics war—each ‘continues’ the other: ‘After several decades, the victory of the Chinese people’s democratic revolution, viewed in retrospect, will seem like only a brief prologue to ...