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...
by chloe | Apr 12, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The question of whether the Commonwealth is relevant invites others: – What do we understand by ‘the Commonwealth’? – Relevant to whom? If we consider the Commonwealth as an...
by chloe | Apr 11, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
Edited by Dr Sue Onslow, Deputy Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies In January 2018, as preparations towards the Commonwealth Summit in London began to accelerate, Senior Research Fellows at the Institute were asked for their views on the valid question, ‘Is...
by chloe | Nov 28, 2017 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, Senior Research Fellow The recent events that led to change of leadership in Zimbabwe resulted in the creation of a ‘new’ Zimbabwe. However, there are more continuities than changes in the power structures at the systemic level, and...
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