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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

US Shift Towards "Smart Power" and its Impact on the Transatlantic Security Partnership. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 2/2010, January 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Beyond the opposition 'EU – civilian and soft power' versus 'US – military and hard power', it is time to consider significant changes in foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic. On the one hand, the EU is trying to develop its military capabilities;
Lecoutre, Sophie.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Language Identity in Maritime Defense Diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019), 2020
Sisilia Setiawati Halimi   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

The Military Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: Negotiation Dynamics in the Second Karabakh War

open access: yesSocial Development & Security
Purpose: to examine how Azerbaijan’s military-political strategy shaped the international diplomatic landscape and contributed to the formulation of the eventual ceasefire agreement during the Second Karabakh War Method: Qualitative research methods ...
Khayal Iskandarov
doaj   +1 more source

Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
wiley   +1 more source

New southern policy as South Korea's defence diplomacy in the Southeast Asia Region

open access: yesSosiohumaniora: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora
President Moon Jae In announced the New Southern Policy as South Korea's foreign policy in 2017. The policy aims to strengthen the special relationship between South Korea and India and countries in the Southeast Asian region.
Rahmadanu Pradityo
doaj   +1 more source

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