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Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Osborne, T. (2019). Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective. Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 1(1), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-00101007

Early modernists have been among the most early and active contributors to the establishment of New Diplomatic History. How has their work affected that on other periods, and how might it continue to do so? How have such extensive histories written d... Read More about Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective.

Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? (2019)
Journal Article
Cheeseman, N., Lynch, G., Kanyinga, K., Ruteere, M., & Willis, J. (2019). Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13(2), 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2019.1594072

This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly important: the... Read More about Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?.

"Transnational Educational and Cultural Interaction Before and During the May Fourth Era: The Chinese Francophile Lobby and the Sino-French Connection" (2019)
Journal Article
Bailey, P. J. (2019). "Transnational Educational and Cultural Interaction Before and During the May Fourth Era: The Chinese Francophile Lobby and the Sino-French Connection". Twentieth-century China, 44(2), 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0017

This article highlights the significance of an ambitious transnational project orchestrated by a group of Chinese Francophile intellectuals active in France from the turn of the twentieth century to the early 1920s (the Chinese Francophile "lobby") w... Read More about "Transnational Educational and Cultural Interaction Before and During the May Fourth Era: The Chinese Francophile Lobby and the Sino-French Connection".

From Islamic reform to Muslim activism: the evolution of an Islamist ideology in Kenya (2019)
Journal Article
Chome, N. (2019). From Islamic reform to Muslim activism: the evolution of an Islamist ideology in Kenya. African Affairs, 118(472), 531-552. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz003

This article traces the evolution of an Islamist ideology in Kenya’s public discourse, putting Islamist ideas within a longer history of Muslim politics than most other studies. Specifically, it examines internal debates amongst the minority Muslim p... Read More about From Islamic reform to Muslim activism: the evolution of an Islamist ideology in Kenya.