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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Photo: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during a live broadcast Monday in Niederkassel.Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa via Getty Images. Retrieved from NBC News.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the Thailand-Cambodia conflict to Friedrich Merz’s appeal for European strategic autonomy, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Photo: Namibia Seeks Stronger Chinese Investment in Strategic Projects. Image retrieved from Namibian Mining News.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Gustav Klimt’s ‘disguised’ portrait to recent Chinese investments in Africa, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The city Laayoune is at the heart of a conflict that has pitted Rabat against the Algiers-backed Polisario Front for decades © Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP, retrieved from France24.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the Western Sahara’s autonomy plan to Europe’s east-west divide, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina takes oath as the country’s Prime Minister at the Bangabhaban in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Jan 11, 2024. (File photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain). Retrieved from CNA.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Myanmar’s ‘permanent Balkanisation’ to the impact of AI, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From African reports on conflict, justice, and climate change to the first-ever Syrian presidential visit to the White House, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia (cc) Rudi Riet, via Flickr, retrieved from Good Authority.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the passing of Dick Cheney to neoliberalism’s racial dimensions, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the opening of historical archives in Europe to Argentina’s bailout and Tony Blair’s potential role in Gaza, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From recent observations and reports in Asia and Africa to the centenary of the Locarno Treaties, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the dark past of the medical sector to concerns about further conflicts in the Middle East, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From post-colonial African accounts to further developments in minority communities in America, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The Java man skull cap. Photo: Paul Morris via Wikimedia Commons

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From questioning when World War II ended to Trump’s ‘invasion from within’, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Protestors denouncing the cuts to USAID, Feb. 2025. Image © Philip Yabut via Shutterstock

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From life in Cuba under sanctions to liberal internationalism after USAID, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. (Joe Rosenthal/AP)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From Trump’s confusing quest to conquer Canada to the Pentagon’s purging of a Native American Iwo Jima flag-raiser, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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CIGH Celebrates International Women’s Day

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Poster for Women’s Day, 8 March 1914. By Karl Maria Stadler.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

In celebration of International Women’s Day, here are our top picks from the Imperial & Global Forum archives.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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