Emperor to caliph
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
The Greek World - Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology - The Greeks
A Concise History of Buddhism - The Wisdom of Buddha - Passionate Enlightenment
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
Mental Leaps
As you might expect, universities in developing East Asian nations have limited expectations of joining the world rankings high table alongside the likes of Harvard University, the University of...
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
Orientalism
The Cambridge History of the English Language
International collaboration as measured by world rankings is key to Asia’s future, argues Justin Kim. Innovation is a key driver for Asia’s fastest-growing economies and universities are vital...