Autumn Term Courses: Politics & International Affairs

South Asia
 GI-10-252
Guy Arnold MA Saturday 6 November
1 meeting 10.30am to 4.30pm £30, Concessions £27
The region covers India, the second emerging giant after China, Pakistan, enmeshed in the extremes of the Afghan war, Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, Sri Lanka, just emerging from 30 years of civil war, landlocked Nepal and Bhutan sitting uneasily on the India-China border, and the Indian Ocean.
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The Special Relationship
 GI-10-253
Guy Arnold MA Saturday 4 December
1 meeting 10.30am to 4.30pm £30, Concessions £27
Created by Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII, the "special relationship" has tied Britain to American policies even as successive US administrations whittled away at British power until Prime Minister Blair was seen as US President Bush's "poodle". Is it time this unequal alliance which always works to Britain's disadvantage was brought to an end?
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