Enduring challenges of statebuilding : British-led police reforms in Sierra Leone, 1945-1961 and 1998-2007
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The conduct of British soldiers in wars of decolonisation has never been of greater historiographical relevance. In legal proceedings ending in 2013 a group of elderly ethnic Kikuyu won the right to sue the British Government for compensation claiming they had been subjected to torture during the Mau Mau Emergency. As a result the Foreign Office wa...
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This study examines changes in the governance of Nottingham and Derby in the period 1945-1968 from a local and national perspective. In so doing it foreshadows the changes wrought by the Local Government Act 1972, which usually receives greater academic attention. Post-war, local authorities became the nation’s principal landlords, while utilities,...
This thesis focuses on the Impact of EU conditionality on democratisation in Turkey. Built on the assumption that Turkey's democratisation process cannot be fully understood without taking the EU's impact into account, this thesis argues that even if external actors (e.g., the EU) can create opportunities for domestic political change in target sta...
Nous étudions les formes selon lesquelles la Génération argentine de 1837 a pensé la politique afin d'instituer un ordre politique dans le Rio de la Plata, entre 1830 et 1853, à Buenos Aires, où débute ce mouvement intellectuel" et à Montevideo, espace de l'exil insurrectionnel où elle cherchera à favoriser une opposition politique au rosisme. Nous...