by chloe | Apr 21, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow My first memory of being aware of something called the Commonwealth was as a six or seven year old at West Acton Infant’s School in West London. On the second Monday in March, if the weather was good, the whole school would...
by chloe | Apr 20, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Rehnuma Sazzad, Associate Fellow To be, or not to be, is not the question we generally associate with the Commonwealth. Given the historico-political ties binding the former colonies with the mother country, the relevance of the organization has never been...
by chloe | Apr 19, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by J Howard M Jones, Senior Research Fellow When first teaching at the University of Reading, a student from Fiji recounted to me the experience of attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace. When introduced, with her husband, to the Queen, they knelt and clapped...
by chloe | Apr 18, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by John Cowley, Senior Research Fellow Political change in the United Kingdom has raised interest in the Commonwealth, giving the organisation a status it has lacked in recent years. Suddenly, this extraordinary association of diverse communities that spans the globe...
by chloe | Apr 17, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
By James Chiriyankandath, Senior Research Fellow For over a decade I’ve co-edited Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, which is, along with The Round Table, one of the two journals, both published by Routledge, focused on the politics of the Commonwealth. First...
by chloe | Apr 16, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
By Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, Senior Research Fellow The implication that the Commonwealth has to rise from its ashes presupposes that the Commonwealth is already in terminal decline, and may even be on the pyre of history. Yet the modern Commonwealth is clearly...
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