Over the last eight years I’ve commissioned, edited or led a dozen or more research studies and analytical pieces on the South China Sea disputes. China’s assertiveness in the region, and especially […]
Michael A. Innes
Maps: Telling a Story of Imagined Omniscience
In lieu of something original from me, I offer you something insightful by someone else – Michael Caines, in the Times Literary Supplement, reviewing a new British Library exhibition entitled Maps and […]
Bestowing Infinite Pains on Discovering What Actually Happened
In his much quoted critique of medieval historiography, R.J. Collingwood noted that historians, … in their anxiety to detect the general plan of history, and their belief that this plan was God’s […]
The Taliban Reader: War, Islam and Politics in Their Own Words
Some exciting news: Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, two key members of the Taliban Sources Project (TSP), have announced their plans for the The Taliban Reader: War, Islam and Politics […]
The Common Vote
Recent events in Columbia and Hungary have precipitated new analysis of a recurring problem – the benefits and hazards of popular referenda. I grew up in one country where referenda were gifts […]
