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Charles Wilson, the Pitman's Poet (2010)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2010). Charles Wilson, the Pitman's Poet. In K. Gildart, & D. Howell (Eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography Vol.XIII. Palgrave Macmillan

Multiculturalism and the Concept of the State. (2010)
Book Chapter
Stirk, P. M. (2010). Multiculturalism and the Concept of the State. In M. Dimova-Cookson, & P. M. Stirk (Eds.), Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict (151-169). Routledge

Advanced conservative liberalism: party and principle in Trollope's parliamentary novels (2010)
Journal Article
Craig, D. (2010). Advanced conservative liberalism: party and principle in Trollope's parliamentary novels. Victorian Literature and Culture, 38(2), 355-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000033

When, on 17 November 1868, Anthony Trollope came bottom of the poll at Beverley in Yorkshire, his cherished ambition to become a Liberal MP was at an end. He had advocated the key elements of the liberal program – Irish Church disestablishment and na... Read More about Advanced conservative liberalism: party and principle in Trollope's parliamentary novels.

High politics' and the 'new political history (2010)
Journal Article
Craig, D. (2010). High politics' and the 'new political history. Historical Journal, 53(2), 453-475. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x10000129

Recent claims about the convergence in methodology between ‘high politics’ and the ‘new political history’ remain unclear. The first part of this review examines two deeply entrenched misunderstandings of key works of high politics from the 1960s and... Read More about High politics' and the 'new political history.

Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality (2010)
Book
Sunderland, L. (2010). Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality. D.S. Brewer

This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is... Read More about Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality.

Hedley Bull and Just War: Missed opportunities and lessons to be learned (2010)
Journal Article
Williams, J. (2010). Hedley Bull and Just War: Missed opportunities and lessons to be learned. European Journal of International Relations, 16(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066109344016

This article explores the reasons for the absence of a systematic engagement with the tradition of Just War in the political theory of Hedley Bull, despite his recognition of war as a key institution of international society and his engagement with n... Read More about Hedley Bull and Just War: Missed opportunities and lessons to be learned.

'The Limits of Pro-Fascism and Anti-Fascism: G. K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant' (2010)
Book Chapter
Stapleton, J. (2010). 'The Limits of Pro-Fascism and Anti-Fascism: G. K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant'. In N. Copsey, & A. Olechnowicz (Eds.), Varieties of anti-fascism : Britain in the interwar period (224-244). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282674_11

This chapter explores the equivocation that could mark sympathy with fascism in Britain, the contingent nature of a good deal of the support it received and the repudiation of certain forms of fascism while others were tolerated, even extolled. The d... Read More about 'The Limits of Pro-Fascism and Anti-Fascism: G. K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant'.

Dying for the State: The Missing Just War Question? (2010)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2010). Dying for the State: The Missing Just War Question?. Review of International Studies, 36(1), 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026021050999057x

This article introduces the problem of having to risk one's life for the state in war, asking first why this question is no longer asked in the just war literature and then suggesting five issues that relate to this question: 1) that of individual co... Read More about Dying for the State: The Missing Just War Question?.

The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva (2010)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2010). The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva. Comparative Literature, 62(1), 22-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-030

This article proposes a comparison between the ethics of rebellion developed in recent publications by Julia Kristeva and in the medieval poetry of Bertran de Born. Both Kristeva and Bertran see revolt as a continuous and crucial process of transform... Read More about The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva.

From Rome to Lisbon: "Executive Federalism" in the (New) European Union (2010)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2010). From Rome to Lisbon: "Executive Federalism" in the (New) European Union. Common Market Law Review, 47(5), 1385-1427

Is the European Union a legislative giant on clay feet? Is it true that the Union has, with some specific exceptions, no original competence to implement European law? This article analyses the structure of the Union’s “executive federalism” in three... Read More about From Rome to Lisbon: "Executive Federalism" in the (New) European Union.

'Bediuzzaman and the Concept of ʿAdl: Towards a Nursian Ontology of Divine Justice' (2010)
Journal Article
Turner, C. (2010). 'Bediuzzaman and the Concept of ʿAdl: Towards a Nursian Ontology of Divine Justice'. Asian Journal of Social Science, 38(4), 554-582. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853110x517782

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1876‐1960), one of the foremost Muslim thinkers in the modern era, is one of few scholars in the Sunni Islamic tradition to make the notion of justice (Adl) a cornerstone of his theological discourse. This article is an attemp... Read More about 'Bediuzzaman and the Concept of ʿAdl: Towards a Nursian Ontology of Divine Justice'.