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The Commonwealth Secretariat: A little local difficulty – or terminal decline?

The Commonwealth Secretariat: A little local difficulty – or terminal decline?

by louisa | Feb 13, 2020 | The Commonwealth

by Professor Philip Murphy, Director of Institute of Commonwealth Studies In what now appears to have been a concerted manoeuvre, first New Zealand and then Australia and the UK revealed they were withholding or in the case of Australia actually cancelling financial...
“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History

December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
The Commonwealth: a strange beast, a relic of Empire…or not so bad after all?

The Commonwealth: a strange beast, a relic of Empire…or not so bad after all?

by chloe | Apr 25, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth

by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow On the face of it, the Commonwealth is a strange beast. A hotchpotch of 53 nations, covering a quarter of the world’s land-mass, its leaders represent (after a fashion) a third of world’s population. Born out of the Empire, it...
The Commonwealth: adapting to post-war, post-imperial realities

The Commonwealth: adapting to post-war, post-imperial realities

by chloe | Apr 24, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth

by Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow How one addresses the question of the Commonwealth’s relevance depends on one’s perception of ‘the Commonwealth’. It is known globally as an international association, bringing together 53 ‘independent and equal...
The future of the Commonwealth’s relevance lies in development

The future of the Commonwealth’s relevance lies in development

by chloe | Apr 23, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth

by Nicholas S.J. Watts, Senior Research Fellow  The relevance of the Commonwealth can only be established in a political context. When the Second World War ended, for example, and the British Empire increasingly looked set to fade, Nehru became the statesman who would...
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