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How tall is the new UN High Commisssioner? Mountainous Issues confront Zeid Ra’ad Zeid
Suzanne Nossel, courtesy of Foreign Policy Journal, 9 June 2014 … Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, the U.N.’s newly appointed incoming High Commissioner for Human Rights has his work cut out for him. With a little panache and a … Continue reading
Primordialist Strands in Contemporary Sinhalese Nationalism: Urumaya as Ur
Michael Roberts* This article was composed in 2001 and appeared in the Marga booklet series on A History of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. It is reproduced here without changes, but has also been embellished with hyperlinks to pertinent … Continue reading
Sledging: Shit in the Cricketing Lounge
Michael Roberts Is cricket akin to war? It surely cannot be. Whether in the American Civil War, the trenches of the Somme, the battle fields in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and … Continue reading
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Nationalism, the Past and The Present: The Case of Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts This review article was drafted in 1991 and should therefore be assessed in the light of the literature available then. In those days it took at least two years for an article to be refereed and published. The … Continue reading
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