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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics (2022)
Journal Article
Akhter, S., Elias, J., & Rai, S. M. (2022). Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics. Social Politics, 29(4), 1121-1143. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac035

This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersec... Read More about Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics.

Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries (2022)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2022). Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries. History of European Ideas, 48(3), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056335

This article explores how our thinking about time shapes epistemological and ontological understandings of the world. It considers the idea of modernity as constituted by the ancient/modern binary through an examination of Montesquieu’s and Benjamin... Read More about Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries.

Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental (2020)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2020). Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s (127-147). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454261-011

It is hard to imagine language more alarming to European and American imperialists and their allies than the terms Mehdi Ben Barka used to describe the conference he was organising. In May 1965, the Afro-Asian People‘s Solidarity Organisation elected... Read More about Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental.

The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Tsourapas, G. (2020). The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management. International Migration Review, 54(3), 853-882. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918319879057

How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies Hollifield’s “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its current version the concept is limited, given its focus on economi... Read More about The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management.

Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2019). Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa. In C. Hartmann, & N. Noesselt (Eds.), China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-intervention towards Stabilization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422393-3

This chapter reflects on the ways in which China’s official rhetoric on its approach towards and activities in Africa have developed since the mid-1950s. It suggests that there are three different ‘layers’ to this rhetoric that broadly reflect three... Read More about Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa.

Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy (2017)
Book
Collins, P., & Tripp, C. (Eds.). (2017). Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266076.001.0001

This book seeks to re-evaluate the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868–1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist and British civil servant. In 12 chapters, written by a number of international scholars, Iraqi and Britis... Read More about Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy.

Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967 (2016)
Journal Article
Tsourapas, G. (2016). Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 43(3), 324-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708

The Egyptian state’s policy of dispatching trained Egyptian professionals, primarily educational staff, across the Arab world rarely features in analyses of Egypt’s foreign policy under Gamal Abdel Nasser. This article relies primarily on newly decla... Read More about Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967.

Middle East (2016)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2016). Middle East. In E. J. Blum (Ed.), America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History (678-682). Charles Scribner’s Sons

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. (2015)
Book
Chang, B.-Y. (2015). Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765662

In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appe... Read More about Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan..