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Career Events in the Coming Week
The University’s Careers service offers numerous different events throughout term to help you gain the skills and confidence required in the future. We have hand-picked a few events taking place next week which we think might be of particular interest… Continue reading
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Thoughts From the Second Debate
by Dafydd Townley The second presidential election debate this year in St Louis provided one of the most acrimonious encounters between the two contenders. While many expected Hillary Clinton to provide the coup de grace that would end her opponent’s… Continue reading
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Career Events in the Coming Week
The University’s Careers service offers numerous different events throughout term to help you gain the skills and confidence required in the future. We have hand-picked a few events taking place next week which we think might be of particular interest… Continue reading
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Call For Papers: ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’, 10th-11th July 2017
We are delighted to issue a call for papers for Reading University’s biennial Early Modern Studies Conference, ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’ (10th-11th July 2017). There will be three strands running through the conference: medical grievances literary complaints political/religious grievances The keynote… Continue reading
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Why Hilary Clinton’s stance on Iran is similar to that of JFK
By Darius Wainwright In April 2015, Iran pledged to halt its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Washington had imposed this embargo on Tehran since the 1979 deposition of the pro-western Iranian monarchy. The agreement reached… Continue reading
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Why Donald Trump’s stance on Iran signals a shift in GOP thinking
By Darius Wainwright Since 1945, American policymakers have regarded the maintaining of diplomatic dialogue with Iran as crucial to their wider interests in the Middle East. In the early and middle stages of the Cold War, the US government regarded… Continue reading
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ISOLATIONISM IS HILLARY CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEM
By Dr Mara Oliva As First Lady, Senator for New York and Secretary of State, the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has a long foreign policy track record. She has travelled extensively, visiting more than 112 countries while at… Continue reading
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My ‘Changing Roles of Women in India’ placement: Panjab University, Chandigarh
By Sapheena Garcha So you would think when you arrive in India, in the height of Summer, that you would be greeted with intense heat and glaring sun, right? Wrong! Well partially wrong at least, I touched down in Chandigarh… Continue reading
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Could Foreign Policy be Trump’s Winning Card? History Seems to Suggest So.
By Dr Mara Oliva Now that the conventions are over, it is time to look at the issues! In the next two thought provoking posts, Dr Mara Oliva looks at the role foreign policy has historically played in presidential elections… Continue reading
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The Democratic Convention
by Dafydd Townley At this year’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Hillary Clinton will be officially declared as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. Despite the challenge from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, it’s been a relatively easy affair. Clinton had the… Continue reading
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