Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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International Relations & Development

Opportunities and challenges facing China's peaceful rise
A cautious look at the problems facing China as it looks to continue its economic development
Stanley Crossick, Europe China Academic Network, 21 April 2005

Development should mean more than survival
'Sustainable development' leaves the poor vulnerable to natural disasters.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 17 January 2005

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

Metro miserablists
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 1 October 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

Iraq has wrecked our case for humanitarian wars
How the 'neo-con' pursuit of geo-political goals rather than 'universal justice' split the post-Kosovo consensus on ethical intervention
David Clark, Guardian, 11 August 2003


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