Posts Tagged ‘UK’

May 17, 2015

UK Foreign Policy

Comments at a roundtable discussion on UK foreign policy, held at the University of Hull, May 13 2015. UK foreign policy always strikes me as post-imperial, and weaker/more problematic for still being more ‘imperial’ than ‘post.’ You can see the legacy of empire in the frozen international architecture in which we still operate. The settlements […] read more »

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July 29, 2013

Swopping Conservatives

(originally published on the Comment page of the UK’s University of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute) read more »

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March 27, 2013

Budgets to the right of us, budgets to the left of us: budgets, budgets everywhere!

It’s been quite a month for budgets – both here and, as it happens, in the U.K. too. In London in March, the coalition government provided another round in its continuing pursuit of economic growth through fiscal austerity[1] – an economic growth which continues to elude it – while here in the U.S. […] read more »

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