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International Relations & Development
Enlightenment museums: universal or merely global?
[Although] a universal museum could be invaluable in a world full of conflict and misunderstanding, the credibility of the idea is undermined by its being deployed chiefly as a defense against repatriation claims.
Mark O’Neill,
museum and society, November 2004
Postmodernity goes to war
Contemporary warfare is more about images and effects than bombs and battles.
Philip Hammond,
spiked, 1 June 2004
Picking over the Parthenon
The cooling of national passions reveals the real reason why the Elgin Marbles belong in Bloomsbury.
Josie Appleton,
spiked, 13 January 2004
Mr China: A Memoir
A first person account of the failure of a private equity venture in China - 'the Vietnam War of American business'
Tom Clissold, Robinson,
2003
The Rising "Soft Power" of India and China
Across the world, millions of people are reveling in the burst of creativity coming from India and Asia's other cultural giant, China. As China and India have rejected the grim socialism of their past and opened up their minds, borders and markets, a new generation of artists from these countries have been taking Chinese and Indian pop and fine culture to new levels of sophistication.
Jehangir Pocha,
New Perspectives, November 2003
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