Cambridge Core BlogConflict in Cabinet
Margaret Thatcher was brought down by conflicts in Cabinet over Europe. Tony Blair dominated, and circumvented, his Cabinet over Iraq. Theresa May’s inner Cabinet is structurally divided over Brexit.…
Tag archive: politics
Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice
What if the greatest challenge facing regulation today is not erratic executive action, or lack of political will, or under-resourcing (though of course these matter)?…
Mary Buckley on writing The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia
Professor Mary Buckley, Governing Body Fellow at Hughes Hall Cambridge, speaks to CUP about her motivation, research and writing process for her new book The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia: Human Trafficking and Labour Migration. She has taught Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society in Edinburgh and London in the UK and enjoyed visiting research affiliations in the USA and Russia.…
Author, Tim Longman, responds to Trump’s recent comments
Although President Donald Trump’s recent comments disparaging African countries have drawn international condemnation, many Americans unfortunately share his perception that Africa is a miserable place where no one would choose to live.…
Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law
To many, the recent WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires (MC11) was a disappointment because there was a deadlock over the Doha Development Round.…
The Importance of Political Quotas in Rural India
Quotas for disadvantaged groups, in politics and elsewhere, are implemented in more than 100 countries over the world. Because they are sometimes seen as violating important principles, or because they generate strong emotional reactions, they tend to attract controversy and generate debate.…
The Sword’s Other Edge: Tradeoffs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness
The Sword’s Other Edge establishes various compromises that come about in the pursuit of military power. The idea that pursuing military power can boomerang recalls the Vietnam War, when the use of American firepower in the attempt to crush the Communist threat failed, and backfired.…
ASR Forum: Land Disputes and Displacement in Post-Conflict Africa. Questioning Boundaries and Belonging
Conflict-related displacement is increasingly central in shaping land claims, property relations, and modes of belonging in the African continent. In settings of forced mobility and resettlement, land property claims define the continued struggles over community membership and access to resources.…
Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization – Exciting “Mini Book-Tour” in the US
I just came back from a hectic 10 days in the US, presenting my new book at 5 universities – it was a very intense, yet very satisfying, trip.…
Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere: Reexamining the Causes, Consequences, and Controversy of the Historikerstreit and the Goldhagen Debate
Last year marked the anniversary of two of the most important scholarly debates about modern German history and the Holocaust: the so-called Historikerstreit (“historians’ quarrel”) that erupted thirty years ago in West Germany, as well as the lively debate sparked exactly a decade later by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J.…
New Journals for 2018
Cambridge University Press welcomes 12 new journals in 2018, including 1 brand new launch title, 2 open access titles, and 9 from new society partners.…
North Korean Resources at the Journal of East Asian Studies
With North Korea in the news, we would like to call attention to the range of research the Journal of East Asian Studies has published on the country.…