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Global Britain? Another non-sequitur in the collapsing Brexit Project

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 by Admin

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Global influence is driven more by actions than by words. Simply declaring the UK open for business, while simultaneously cutting the country off from one of the world’s major trading blocs has severely undermined Britain’s soft power. Britain has always liked to think it has a special place in the…

China’s COVID situation is dire – but it shouldn’t pose a big risk to other countries

January 6, 2023February 6, 2023 by Editor

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Paul Hunter Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia China is currently in the midst of a severe wave of COVID infections and deaths. We don’t know exactly how bad it is because of significant gaps in official reporting, but by all indications, things are dire. News reports suggest hospitals…

Religion and International Security: An Interview with Lee Marsden

November 19, 2018 by Editor

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Lee Marsden is Professor of Faith and Global Politics, and Head of the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. He very kindly found some time in his diary to talk to us about his new book – Religion and International Security –…

Final Acts of remembrance? Time to end war commemorations

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 by Editor

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Professor Lee Marsden writes ahead of Sunday's Remembrance Day on why it time to end war commemorations During the First World a popular song with British squaddies reflected the futility and human cost of the war: 'If you want to find the general I know where he is, I know where he…

British Values and Islam in Contemporary Britain

March 1, 2018February 28, 2018 by Editor

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Lee Jarvis draws on AHRC-funded research with Lee Marsden and Eylem Atakav to discuss contemporary portrayals of Islam, Muslims and British values. There are, according to the Muslim Council of Britain – a non-sectarian umbrella body for over 500 Muslim organisations – around 2.7 million Muslims living in Britain today:…

Should we recognise North Korea as a nuclear power?

February 14, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un claimed in his 2018 New Year's address that "the entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office". How the international community should respond to this has been a…

Fire and Fury: UEA staff and students react

February 6, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor

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Michael Wolff's book 'Fire and Fury', which provides an inside story of Donald Trump's Whitehouse, set headlines around the world when it was published. A range of bombshell claims were made about how policy was made, Trump's approach to the Presidency and Donald Trump himself. A fierce debate followed. The…

Terrorist obituaries: some early research reflections

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 by Editor

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Lee Jarvis reflects on his ongoing research project on terrorist obituaries. Terrorists - or, better, those who are widely portrayed as ‘terrorist’ - are remembered in a multiplicity of ways after their death. In murals and in music, in slogans and speeches, on t-shirts and online, in fiction and in film. All…

‘Counter-terrorism policies play an important role in shaping a national identity narrative’: Conversation with Lee Jarvis

December 8, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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This article is published in collaboration with the international Violence and Exiting Violence Platform (FMSH). Sylvain Antichan: Lee Jarvis, you are working on security discourses, the adoption of counter-terrorism policies and their political and social impact through the lens of the British case. After the London bomb attacks that were…

What’s in store for the Precautionary Principle?

November 21, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Right now, the fate of the EU’s environmental principles in this country after Brexit is being debated by the House of Commons. Rupert Read sets out the prospects for the retention of the Precautionary Principle after Brexit. The current state of play The EU Withdrawal Bill is currently being debated…

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