| Paper |
Author |
Research Area |
Synopsis |
| Cape Verde: Is Marketing Good Governance Enough? |
Roy May and Bruce Baker
2008 |
African Studies, Politics |
This report is the outcome of British Academy funded research in Cape Verde. It was undertaken in November 2008 and involved interviews with 26 key informants including government ministers, MPs, senior civil servants, local government leaders, journalists, NGOs, security officers, academics, business leaders, journalists, and local people on the islands of Santiago, San Vicente and Fogo. |
| Marxism, Passions, and the Collapse of Communism in Russia |
Alexander Chubarov
2007 |
History |
This paper argues that the system, set up in Soviet Russia from the blueprints of Marx and his Russian followers, closed all the “safety valves” that exist in a market economy. The imposition of strictly centralised planning and rigid regulation stifled personal initiative and entrepreneurial talent as the driving force of economic development, breeding stagnation and the decay of the entire system. |
| The British Occupation of Egypt and Alexandria’s Greek Bourgeoisie, 1882-1919 |
Alexander Kazamias
2008
|
History, International Relations |
This paper explores the relationship between the British colonial authorities in Egypt and the Greek bourgeoisie of Alexandria in the period 1882-1919. In contrast to ethnocentric and neo-Marxist interpretations, this analysis applies the concept of the ‘internal bourgeoisie’, coined by Poulantzas in the 1970s, to demonstrate how this class combined positions of dependence and autonomy in relation to the British Occupation, to protect its privileged social status. |
| Out of Africa: The human trade between Libya and Lampedusa |
Salvatore Coluccello and Simon Massey
2007
|
International Crime, International Relations |
Between 2000-2005 the reported incidence of people trafficking and smuggling from North Africa to Europe has escalated. The article examines the nature of criminality involved in people smuggling and trafficking with specific reference to the sea route between Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa, 180 miles north of the Libyan coast. The article’s chief objective is to provide a greater understanding of the mechanisms and processes involved in smuggling/trafficking. |
| Governmentality, Ontological Security and Ideational Stability: Some Preliminary Observations on the Manner, Ritual and Logic of a Particular Art of Government |
James D. Marlow
2002 |
Sociology, Politics |
This article looks at the manner in which modern governmentality (i.e., the rationality of governance) bears on feelings of insecurity and uncertainty that are seemingly commonplace in our 'Age of Anxiety’. Its basic argument is that governments today, perhaps unconsciously rather than consciously, provide a significant background element of the, as it were, ‘intertext’ (an intersecting web of discursive semblances) of present day ‘ontological security’ and associated ideational stability. |