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Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (2019)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., & Lin, P.-Y. (Eds.). (2019). Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the i... Read More about Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming.

The International Criminal Court in Africa and the Politics of International Justice (2019)
Book Chapter
Clark, P. (2019). The International Criminal Court in Africa and the Politics of International Justice. In W. R. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.724

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has generated considerable controversy since it came into force in 2002, principally because of its overriding focus on African conflict situations and suspects. This has led to accusations that the ICC is a neo... Read More about The International Criminal Court in Africa and the Politics of International Justice.

From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974) (2019)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2019). From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974). In B.-Y. Chang, & P.-Y. Lin (Eds.), Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (95-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227-7

As a crucial part of the US-led Asia–Pacific security framework, and standing against communist expansion, Taiwan and its offshore islands acted as an anti-communist bulwark during the Cold War. Under the prevailing fear of communist infiltration at... Read More about From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974).

African Yuan (2019)
Journal Article
Zhou, H. (2019). African Yuan. Critical Muslim, 30, 89-98

China’s presence in West Africa is shrouded in myth, misconception, and often comical misinformation, invoking simplistic tendencies to present each region as a monolithic entity. I remember the China-Africa Beijing Summit in 2006, the largest ever c... Read More about African Yuan.

The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous (2019)
Journal Article
Rofe, J. S., & Tomlinson, A. (2020). The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous. The International History Review, 42(3), 505-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1593218

The article addresses the diplomacy practiced by Sir Stanley Rous, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president (1961–1974), and the international history of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involvement in, and the boycott... Read More about The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous.

The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous (2019)
Journal Article
Rofe, J. S., & Tomlinson, A. (2020). The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous. The International History Review, 42(3), 505-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1593218

The article addresses the diplomacy practiced by Sir Stanley Rous, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president (1961–1974), and the international history of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involvement in, and the boycott... Read More about The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous.

Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Khan, M., Andreoni, A., & Roy, P. Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges. London

This Working Paper, by the Executive and Research Directors of SOAS-ACE, examines the problem of defining and measuring illicit financial flows, and the implications of this for policy-making.