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

Sachs Sucks
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 11 April 2007

Is London still stressed out about 7/7?
Bill Durodié, spiked, 2 April 2007

Poor story: an insider uncovers how globalisation and good intentions have failed the world's poor

"It's not that we're anti-African, it's just that we live in a world that can be unwittingly unpleasant to people who don't matter"

Giles Bolton, Ebury Press, 2007

Give us some focking answers, Bob!
Nathalie Rothschild, spiked, 19 March 2007

MacGregor calls for bigger role for cultural diplomacy
Speaking at the launch of a DEMOS report on cultural diplomacy last month, British Museum director Neil MacGregor called for culture to play a bigger international role in building and sustaining relations between countries…
Museums Association, 14 March 2007

The politics of naming: genocide, civil war, insurgency
In Iraq the politics are as messy as the military intervention is complicit. Darfur, on the other hand, presents a black and white canvas, where the perpetrators are so evil and the victims so helpless that only a rescue mission from the outside will suffice
Mahmood Mamdani, London Review of Books, 7 March 2007

Waste not, want not in the £700m slum
There is a lot to learn from the developing world, where a scavenger mentality, grass roots recycling and sheer necessity can lead to imaginative leaps in redeploying waste
Dan McDougall, Observer, 3 March 2007

You're paying for 'cultural diplomacy'
Do you enjoy multiculturalist drivel? No? Tough luck.
Damian Thompson, Telegraph, 3 March 2007

Can't buy me justice
Nathalie Rothschild, spiked, 1 March 2007

China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation

The fall-out from any failure in China's rush to modernity or simply from a temporary economic crash in the Chinese economy would be felt around the world.

James Kynge, Phoenix, 1 March 2007


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