It would seem that international statebuilding has arrived practically de nouvo, fully formed at the end of the Cold War, with commentators trying to extract lessons from the new practices of international administration in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor and Iraq. The more historical approaches which seek to guide international statebuilding draw on institutionally similar circumstances under the L...

As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only certain period of their lives there before returning the Netherlands. However, were also Europeans, with Asian-European roots, who had called colony home for generations and forced leave that after 1945.

Defining the relationship between displaced populations and the nation-state is a fraught historical process. The Partition of India in 1947 provides a powerful example. However markedly little attention has been paid to the refugee communities produced (Ansari, 2005). Using the case of the displaced ‘Urdu-speaking minority’ in Bangladesh this article considers what contemporary discourses of i...

The emphasis on culture in studies of colonialism tends to obscure other forms of colonial power while making it impossible to contextualize the cultural argument and assess its salience. Rather than focusing on texts, systems of signification, and procedures of knowledge generation, as the colonial discourse literature is wont to do, a fuller understanding of colonial powers is achieved by exp...

Recruitment is an important process in regulating many marine benthic communities and many studies have examined factors controlling the dispersal and distribution of larval immigrants. However, benthic species also have early post-settlement life-stages that are dramatically different from adult and larval stages. Predation on these stages potentially impacts measured recruitment and the benth...

Peter Thomas’s criticism of arguments advanced recently an era “post-hegemony” in Western democracies may be extended by considering the experience post-colonial Asia and Africa. Reviewing use Gramscian concepts consent passive revolution study modern South Asian history, this paper argues that both Gramsci’s objectives –a general theory power analysis historically contingent strategic politics...