by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. And over those years it has grown and flourished to develop the link between policy and practice, writes Dr Sue Onslow, the institute’s deputy director. The Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 19, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The royals have been piling into the Commonwealth arena as though it were a grouse shoot. ‘For an organisation that has struggled for decades to escape the long shadow of the British Empire, this sort of love-bombing is a distinctly mixed blessing,’ says Professor...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 9, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
Commonwealth expert, Dr Sue Onslow teases out the challenges created by Zimbabwe’s ‘harmonised’ elections and the awkward questions they pose for the organisation. The announcement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the 2018 Zimbabwe elections – winning by a...
by Talking Humanities | May 15, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), Professor Philip Murphy, writes about his new book, The Empire’s New Clothes, the Myth of the Commonwealth, which was published by Hurst in April. It was a rare example of a Baldrick-style ‘cunning plan’...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 17, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: President Nelson Mandela with Michael Manley, former prime minister of Jamaica and leader of the Commonwealth Observer Group to the first post-apartheid elections in South Africa in 1994. © Commonwealth Secretariat In the ninth of a series of scholarly...
