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    • The United Kingdom in 1914 

      Pennell, C (Cambridge University Press, 23 February 2023)
      The First World War was a turning point in the history of the United Kingdom. The enormous demands of the war, and its vast expenditure (of men, women, and materiel) transformed both economy and society during the war and ...
    • The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria 

      Bakkour, S; Sahtout, R (Routledge, 19 January 2023)
      While state failure was undoubtedly a factor in, and influence on, the uprising, it has become more clearly apparent in the ongoing civil war. The Syrian state can now be said to be ‘failed’ because it cannot meet its ...
    • Critical Feminist Law-Making: Imitative Spaces and Improvised Coalitions 

      Özsoy, EC (Routledge, 9 January 2023)
      Feminists working in the law may experience tension between mainstreaming feminist ideas to make the everyday life of women better and maintaining a critical feminist method of law-making. Some (including myself) might at ...
    • Place-Based Rural Development: A Role for Complex Adaptive Assemblages? 

      Willett, J (Elsevier, 25 January 2023)
      Tackling spatial inequalities needs to make sure that it improves the lives of people in rural and peripheral regions. Whilst local metrics and key indicators may be improved by measures implemented, this does not always ...
    • The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai 

      Qin, X; Owen, C (Springer, 24 November 2022)
      This paper examines Shanghai’s grassroots COVID-19 management as a lens to explore the role of local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisations in public policy implementation in China. We bring together literature on the ...