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Political Studies Review, 2015

In this ambitious work, Zheng Wang sets out to explore how history and collective memories inform... more In this ambitious work, Zheng Wang sets out to explore how history and collective memories inform the formation of national identity and foreign policy making in China. In his attempt to make sense of some otherwise puzzling instances of Chinese domestic and foreign behaviour,Wang employs historical memory as the main explanatory variable since it ‘is the key to understanding Chinese politics and foreign relations’ (p. 7). Focusing on how the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has formulated ‘national humiliations’ from China’s colonial past as ‘chosen trauma’ in the past two decades, Wang persuasively argues that historical consciousness plays an essential role in China’s public rhetoric and historical memory, and that it has been effectively used by the CCP to sustain its legitimacy and to generate foreign policies. Through a careful analysis of school textbooks and official statements, Wang cogently points out that the CCP has created a ‘Chosenness-Myth-Trauma’ (CMT) to dominate China’s contemporary mainstream historical memory, giving rise to a patriotic young generation equipped with an anti-foreign historical consciousness. The CCP refers to the period from the outbreak of the First Opium War in 1840 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 as the ‘century of humiliation’ to emphasise the irreplaceable role it has played in terminating the history of national humiliation and that it will play in reviving the historical glory and reaching ‘the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’ (p. 237). In concluding the book,Wang calls for ‘liberation from the powerful complex of historical myths and trauma’ because China’s over-reliance on historical memory of national humiliation promotes a sense of insecurity and paranoia and may be ‘easily used by nationalists as a tool for mobilization’ against democracy (p. 241). Readers from a Western cultural background may wonder whether history really plays such a predominant role in China’s collective identity construction and its bureaucratic procedure. But we should not forget that history and its interpretation has always been a vital tool of the state to consolidate power and shape national identity. In fact, the compilation of official histories in China was consistently monopolised by the government for over a thousand years until the end of the imperial period. Benefiting from research in primary sources, Never Forget National Humiliation introduces new materials to the English-speaking academic debate. Such a fluently written and meticulously detailed scholarly work will definitely appeal to a broad readership.

How Power Changes Hands, 2011

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2013

* Introduction ** 1. Globalization, democratization and state-civil society relations. challenges... more * Introduction ** 1. Globalization, democratization and state-civil society relations. challenges for left-led Latin America - Peadar Kirby and Barry Cannon * Part 1: State-civil society relations: case studies ** 2. Reconfiguring the state/society complex in Venezuela - Thomas Muhr ** 3. State-civil society relations in post-crisis Argentina - Christopher Wylde ** 4. Civil society-state relations in left-led El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua - Barry Cannon and Mo Hume ** 5. Rafael Correa's government, social movements and civil society in Ecuador - Carlos de la Torre ** 6. Re-evaluating participatory governance in Brazil - Bernhard Leubolt, Wagner Romao, Joachim Becker and Andreas Novy ** 7. State-civil society relations during student mobilizations in Chile in 2006 and 2011 - Rene Jara Reyes * Part 2: Localized conflicts in a globalized age: extractivism, social policy and participation in left-led states ** 8. The return of the state and new extractivism. what about civil society? - Barbara Hogenboom ** 9. Indigenous and peasant participation in resource governance in Bolivia and Peru - Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and David Vollrath ** 10. Chile's mining unions and the 'new left', 1990-2010 - Jewellord T. Nem Singh * Part 3: The global, the national and the local: broadening participation? ** 11. Civil society participation. poverty reduction in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua - Sarah Hunt ** 12. New left governments, civil society and constructing a social dimension in Mercosur - Jose Briceno Ruiz * Conclusion ** 13. Civil society-state relations in left-led Latin America. deepening democratization? - Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby

Review of: Phillips, Andrews, War, Religion and Empire: the Transformation of International Order... more Review of: Phillips, Andrews, War, Religion and Empire: the Transformation of International Orders (cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Sfera Politicii, 2015

This paper aims to analyse the migration issues in Argentina, as they are perceived through the l... more This paper aims to analyse the migration issues in Argentina, as they are perceived through the lenses of the European Union. Argentine society has faced capital changes in the past twenty years, going from a militarist regime to market economy and liberal democracy. All these have culminated with a profound economic crisis at the beginning of the years 2000, changing perceptions and creating new social patterns. Even though Argentine was since its creation a nation of immigrants, in the latest years this has become a sensitive issue. Deteriorating economic factors gave birth to an anti-immigration wave and to an emigration phenomenon.

Political Studies Review, 2014

Political Studies Review, 2014

2 Liam Pantuzzi, "Assessing change in the European Union's approach to migration: Combinations an... more 2 Liam Pantuzzi, "Assessing change in the European Union's approach to migration: Combinations and contradictions between the traditional securitarian paradigm and a new developmental component" (master's thesis,

The Dark Side of Modernity by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. 187pp., £15.99... more The Dark Side of Modernity by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. 187pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 4822 4 P

Political Studies Review, 2015

In this ambitious work, Zheng Wang sets out to explore how history and collective memories inform... more In this ambitious work, Zheng Wang sets out to explore how history and collective memories inform the formation of national identity and foreign policy making in China. In his attempt to make sense of some otherwise puzzling instances of Chinese domestic and foreign behaviour,Wang employs historical memory as the main explanatory variable since it ‘is the key to understanding Chinese politics and foreign relations’ (p. 7). Focusing on how the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has formulated ‘national humiliations’ from China’s colonial past as ‘chosen trauma’ in the past two decades, Wang persuasively argues that historical consciousness plays an essential role in China’s public rhetoric and historical memory, and that it has been effectively used by the CCP to sustain its legitimacy and to generate foreign policies. Through a careful analysis of school textbooks and official statements, Wang cogently points out that the CCP has created a ‘Chosenness-Myth-Trauma’ (CMT) to dominate China’s contemporary mainstream historical memory, giving rise to a patriotic young generation equipped with an anti-foreign historical consciousness. The CCP refers to the period from the outbreak of the First Opium War in 1840 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 as the ‘century of humiliation’ to emphasise the irreplaceable role it has played in terminating the history of national humiliation and that it will play in reviving the historical glory and reaching ‘the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’ (p. 237). In concluding the book,Wang calls for ‘liberation from the powerful complex of historical myths and trauma’ because China’s over-reliance on historical memory of national humiliation promotes a sense of insecurity and paranoia and may be ‘easily used by nationalists as a tool for mobilization’ against democracy (p. 241). Readers from a Western cultural background may wonder whether history really plays such a predominant role in China’s collective identity construction and its bureaucratic procedure. But we should not forget that history and its interpretation has always been a vital tool of the state to consolidate power and shape national identity. In fact, the compilation of official histories in China was consistently monopolised by the government for over a thousand years until the end of the imperial period. Benefiting from research in primary sources, Never Forget National Humiliation introduces new materials to the English-speaking academic debate. Such a fluently written and meticulously detailed scholarly work will definitely appeal to a broad readership.

How Power Changes Hands, 2011

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2013

* Introduction ** 1. Globalization, democratization and state-civil society relations. challenges... more * Introduction ** 1. Globalization, democratization and state-civil society relations. challenges for left-led Latin America - Peadar Kirby and Barry Cannon * Part 1: State-civil society relations: case studies ** 2. Reconfiguring the state/society complex in Venezuela - Thomas Muhr ** 3. State-civil society relations in post-crisis Argentina - Christopher Wylde ** 4. Civil society-state relations in left-led El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua - Barry Cannon and Mo Hume ** 5. Rafael Correa's government, social movements and civil society in Ecuador - Carlos de la Torre ** 6. Re-evaluating participatory governance in Brazil - Bernhard Leubolt, Wagner Romao, Joachim Becker and Andreas Novy ** 7. State-civil society relations during student mobilizations in Chile in 2006 and 2011 - Rene Jara Reyes * Part 2: Localized conflicts in a globalized age: extractivism, social policy and participation in left-led states ** 8. The return of the state and new extractivism. what about civil society? - Barbara Hogenboom ** 9. Indigenous and peasant participation in resource governance in Bolivia and Peru - Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and David Vollrath ** 10. Chile's mining unions and the 'new left', 1990-2010 - Jewellord T. Nem Singh * Part 3: The global, the national and the local: broadening participation? ** 11. Civil society participation. poverty reduction in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua - Sarah Hunt ** 12. New left governments, civil society and constructing a social dimension in Mercosur - Jose Briceno Ruiz * Conclusion ** 13. Civil society-state relations in left-led Latin America. deepening democratization? - Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby

Review of: Phillips, Andrews, War, Religion and Empire: the Transformation of International Order... more Review of: Phillips, Andrews, War, Religion and Empire: the Transformation of International Orders (cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Sfera Politicii, 2015

This paper aims to analyse the migration issues in Argentina, as they are perceived through the l... more This paper aims to analyse the migration issues in Argentina, as they are perceived through the lenses of the European Union. Argentine society has faced capital changes in the past twenty years, going from a militarist regime to market economy and liberal democracy. All these have culminated with a profound economic crisis at the beginning of the years 2000, changing perceptions and creating new social patterns. Even though Argentine was since its creation a nation of immigrants, in the latest years this has become a sensitive issue. Deteriorating economic factors gave birth to an anti-immigration wave and to an emigration phenomenon.

Political Studies Review, 2014

Political Studies Review, 2014

2 Liam Pantuzzi, "Assessing change in the European Union's approach to migration: Combinations an... more 2 Liam Pantuzzi, "Assessing change in the European Union's approach to migration: Combinations and contradictions between the traditional securitarian paradigm and a new developmental component" (master's thesis,

The Dark Side of Modernity by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. 187pp., £15.99... more The Dark Side of Modernity by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. 187pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 4822 4 P