Politics
The Politics of the German Empire, 1871-1918
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https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/researchActivity/32803
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I continue to research and write about the German Empire. Publications include a monograph on National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914 (OUP, 2000) and various chapters and articles: 'The Kaiserreich in Question: Constitutional Crisis in Germany before the First World War', Journal of Modern History, 73 (2001); 'Wilhelmine Germany', in J. Retallack (ed.), Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (OUP, 2008); and 'A Nervous Age? Wilhelmine Germany before the First World War', in J. Breuilly (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Germany (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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Galicia and Rwanda: Social or Ethnic Genocid
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A SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Tomasz Kamusella, University of St Andrews Rarely are European and non-European events compared, let alone for the sake of methodology. Education and the mass media keep reproducing this post/colonial divide between the West and ‘the Rest’ in people’s heads. A considerable percentage of the targeted population was rapidly exterminated in both Galician Peasant Uprising and Rwandan Genocide. The former event is interpreted as a social (socio-economic) conflict and largely forgotten, though part of the highly politicized Polish modern history. This uprising sits ill at ease with the Polish national master narrative. On the contrary the Rwandan Genocide is said to have been a case of an ethnic conflict, and this bloodbath has been made into the foundation of present-day Rwanda’s politics of history (Geschichtspolitik). Yet, I propose that the dynamics of the events in Galicia can be explained better if we adopt the actors’ perceptio
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Given the recent Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh, this research aims to study the overall implications of this exodus for regional stability, security and peace. In so doing, this research also intends to understand causes and drivers of identity-based politics associated to Rohingya population in Myanmar. This study, which employs a mixed method approach including a survey, a number of key informant interviews and several short case studies of persecution, also wants to understand complex issues of management of large exodus of refugees in Bangladesh and how best to address them in the longer-term. This project intends to produce a policy brief, two peer-reviewed journal articles and to contribute to policy making related to management of the Rohingya refugee crisis at local, regional and international levels with a view to help in their repatriation process.