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

Think BIG
Shot in Ghana by a volunteer crew, Think BIG showcases Ghanaians with big aspirations and big plans
Ceri Dingle (director), WORLDwrite documentary, 2006

Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World

‘By understanding China’s soft power Washington can more systematically set clear limits and establish where it believes China possibly threatens American interests’

Joshua Kurlantzick, Yale University Press, 2006

Does the future really belong to China?
Is China’s partial conversion to capitalism jeopardising future growth or will it simply blaze its own political and economic path?
Will Hutton and Meghnad Desai, Prospect, December 2006

The History at the End of History
As the US invasion of Iraq demonstrates, democracy cannot be imposed from without
Francis Fukuyama, Project Syndicate, 2006

Why these patronising gifts get my goat
Sadhavi Sharma, spiked, 20 December 2006

Starving Africa of money
Stuart Simpson, spiked, 11 December 2006

Still not ‘ethical’ after all these years
Rob Lyons, spiked, 30 November 2006

Globalisation and Economic Growth in China

In the 26 years since market-oriented reforms were introduced, China has emerged onto the world stage as a major economic presence, particularly since her accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001. This book is a collection of papers on the effects of globalisation on China's growth prospects and of China's growth on the wider economy.

Yang Yao and Linda Yueh (eds.), World Scientific Publishing, 29 November 2006

The age of PR imperialism
Mick Hume, spiked, 21 November 2006

Shop till global injustice drops!
Nathalie Rothschild, spiked, 19 November 2006


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