International Relations
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Connections and Disconnections on City Road, Cardiff
The content discusses the concept of ‘making and remaking’ through the experiences of three individuals on City Road, Cardiff. Nof Al-Kelaby showcases resilience by adapting his business to new demographics. Shari Hall enhances local businesses through her blog, fostering virtual connections. John exemplifies the challenges of homelessness, highlighting complex social dynamics. Continue reading
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City Road, Cardiff
In your own words, define ‘making and remaking’ and provide one example of this that can be seen on City Road. City Road has a rich and diverse history and is in a constant state of flux. In ‘making and remaking’ this change can be examined in how it reflects on the social characters that… Continue reading
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Wez G in Parliament with Jessica Morden MP
Today I was invited to Parliament on a scheduled visit with my MP, Jessica Morden, the Labour Party representative for Newport East constituency. I’ve known and been friends witH Jess for years and this is the first time I’ve actually been to Parliament with her in person, although she had previously arranged for me to… Continue reading
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The Nuremburg Code 1947
At the end of World War 2, after, in particular, the disaster of the Holocaust becoming apparent, many leading Nazis were hunted down and brought to trial to face justice for war crimes. One of the main international trials, indeed the biggest international trial to date, occurred at Nuremburg in November 1945 where leading figures… Continue reading
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Review: The Near East Since The First World War – by M.E.Yapp
This book was written in 1990 and is thus a bit dated. The postscript announces the start of the first Gulf War after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Post World War 1 saw most of the current political boundaries drawn in the Near East or as we now most predominantly label it, the Middle East.… Continue reading
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Review: Gommorah – Italy’s Other Mafia – by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is the Italian Salman Rushdie. After writing his exposé on the Neapolitan mafia that is the subject of this book, Gomorrah, Saviano had serious death threats from organised crime and had to go into hiding and lives under security protection to this day. He is only a young man and is a patriotic… Continue reading
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Review: Stasiland – Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – by Anna Funder
The Stasi were the brutal secret police in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or East Germany. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East and West Germany once again became reunited. Funder is an Australian journalist who, in this award-winning book, explores the Stasi at work… Continue reading
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Review: From Pablo to Osama – Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation – by Michael Kenney
This book is an academic study of two of the major opponents of Western governments today. It examines both Narcotraffickers and Cartels and also Terrorists, mainly Islamic terrorists. Not only does it cover the methods and practices of these two criminal enterprises in their working practices, the book also examines the law enforcement approaches in… Continue reading
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Review: Blood Year – Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror – by David Kilcullen
This is the second book that I have read by David Kilcullen. The author is a former Australian soldier and a senior advisor to the US Military in addition to being a leading theorist of modern warfare. This book looks deeply at the fundamental Islamic terrorist state ISIS. ISIS grew out of the ashes of… Continue reading
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Review: Unrestricted Warfare – Wake Up, America! China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui are from a new generation of Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers. They have mused upon the situation of modern military affairs and developed this theoretical book on war to describe the status quo as it was around the turn of the Millenium. The book is a translation of the original… Continue reading
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