Sectarianism meets the Arab Spring: TGONU, a broad-based Sunni movement emerges in Bahrain by Hasan Tariq al-Hasan

“…Such an unprecedented event played an important role in tipping the balance of power during that critical stage of Bahrain’s political history. Through in-depth interviews with the leaders at the heart of this transformation, we trace the metamorphosis of The Gathering of National Unity, from a spontaneous, all-encompassing social movement into a hierarchical political organization, and explore the tensions and power politics that ultimately decided its fate.…”
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Chile y Estados Unidos, 1964-1973. Una nueva mirada by Sebastián Hurtado Torres

“…In this essay I suggest that the records of the Department of State, especially those documents that record the daily workings of the political staff of the U.S. embassy in Santiago, shed new light on some issues of the utmost relevance for Chilean contemporary political history, force us to reconsider some of the most widespread interpretations about the character of the relationship between the two countries in the period covered in this article and clearly portray the ideological and political motivations that underlay the work of the U.S. diplomats stationed in Chile.…”
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TOWARDS A RESEARCH AGENDA ON STEPPE IMAGINARIES IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION by E. Filep, C. Bichsel

“…However, it also reveals that the research on the relevance of such imaginaries for Russian and Soviet political history in the twentieth century is largely absent. …”
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Environmental Degradation and Dredging in the Havana Bay (1820-1850) by Claudia Martínez Herrera

“…Reconstructing the environmental history of Havana enables us to reevaluate the political history. In this case, we observe how the socio-environmental transformations influenced the construction of the colonial state. …”
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The hidden dimension to political instability: Insights from ministerial durations in Papua New Guinea from 1972 to 2017 by Henry Ivarature

“…Drawing on PNGʼs political history, this article provides a discussion of this variation by examining the circumstances of particular governments.…”
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Les spots politiques télévisés britanniques : de l’anecdote télévisuelle à la mémoire collective by David Haigron

“…As a matter of fact, this evolution implies certain consequences and constitutes a new step in the chronology of Britain’s political history. The first expression of this evolution is a shift of the space of political representation towards television. …”
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The political activity of Najaf students 1932-1958 A reading in the government perspective through the documents of the archives of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior by عبد الستار شنين الجنابي

“… The subject of the student movement and its political movement in Najaf, as a conscious and important segment of the national movement, constitutes an important unstudied page in its political history, whether at the level of local histories, or at the level of Iraqi historical and political studies. …”
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“My country, my enemy”: representing and questioning American politics through radical activism in The Darling by Russell Banks by Marine Paquereau

“…The protagonist’s multiple identities, which reflect the political upheavals and the inner conflicts of her country, as well as the constant blurring of the boundaries between reality and fiction enable Banks to offer a complex reflection on the building and the staging of American political history in the second half of the twentieth century.…”
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About the researchers by Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Jonathan Wood, Martin Binachon

“…He showed that the legal and political history in Avanersuaq is marked by colonial behaviours and attitudes that defined and excluded the Inughuit. …”
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Thinking about the Law with Edmund Burke by Ivone Moreira

“…Burke intervened in a very significant way at various moments in the political history of the England of his time. Although being considered by some commentators to be a utilitarian, in fact, it is Burke’s fidelity to the principles of natural law that makes all his political interventions coherent. …”
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Gold Cult Supplies of The Assyrian Merchants Recorded in Kültepe Tablets by Nurgül YILDIRIM

“…Asyyrian Trade Colonies Era is a very important period in terms of social and political history of Ancient Anatolia. Kültepe-Kaniş is a centre which introduces this period the best the contex of the both philological data and archeological findings. …”
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CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY AND ESOTERIC APOLOGIES IN THE SPAIN OF CARLOS V. RINGS, ASTRAL MAGIC AND NATURAL MAGIC IN SILVA DE VARIA LECCION OF PEDRO MEXÍA (1540) by Juan Bubello

“…At the crossroads of cultural history and political history, we investigate both the characteristics of esoteric practices and representations in 16th century Spain and the representational struggles between the hostile discourses of Christian orthodoxy and the apologetics of esotericists. …”
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Políticas forestales y deforestación en Portugal, 1580-1640 : realidad o mito ? by Koldo Trápaga Monchet, Félix Labrador Arroyo

“…This article addresses the royal forests in Portugal during the Union of Crowns within the field of environmental political history. Firstly, it sheds light upon the royal forests by looking at the forestry legislation issued from 15th to 17th centuries. …”
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Femmes et politique : une nouvelle vision du XIXème siècle by Almudena Delgado Larios

“…The Nineteenth Century deserves special attention in this historical reappraisal since traditionally speaking it can be described as “highly masculine” as far as the portrayal of political history is concerned. The exception of the reigning Queens allows us to highlight the weight gender has when it comes to attributing places and roles in the political debates of the time and it helps explain the process of transformation of an institutional monarchy from the perspective of the liberal revolution. …”
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Ojos en la guerra. La historiografía estadounidense ante la guerra civil española, 1998-2007 by Santiago Martínez Sánchez

“…Most common of these in political history, there are also a lot on the role of women. …”
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The Search for a Cameroonian Model of Democracy or the Search for the Domination of the State Party: 1966-2006 by David Mokam

“…1996 and 2006 were two milestones in the political history of Cameroon. They represent, respectively, the establishment of a one-party system in the country and the parliament’s passing of bill that created an independent body to organize country’s elections. …”
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Informal Aspects of the Institutionalization of Russian Political Elite by Anton Andreevich Berezutskiy

“…It presents a brief analysis of informal institutionalization practices in the political history of Russia and modernity. In the conclusion of the article, risks of further informal institutionalization for the state and society are listed. …”
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Understanding South Africa’s Changing Positions on International Criminal Justice: Why the country wanted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and why it may rem... by Jeremy Julian Sarkin

“…South Africa’s history with international law and international justice are examined to indicate how these matters over time reflect South Africa’s political history and political developments. The next section of the article examines the role the United Nations Security Council plays in relation to the ICC and why that, along with other issues, has led to a greater reluctance by African countries to accept who is judged and who is not. …”
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The peacemaker : a biopic of Mr Othman Wok’s life and political journey by Muhammad Al Hafiz Sanusi

“…Internationally, biographical films (biopics) remain quite prominent up till today, often producing some of the best tour-de-force performances and shedding light on the social and political history of a particular era or nation. Unfortunately, we have yet to see a similar film that depicts one of the many historical figures that our nation has and attributed our independence to. …”
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Toward an Abbasid history of emotions: The case of slavery by Bray, J

“…The idea that there can be histories of everything or anything has not yet taken root in the field of Islamic history, which is still dominated by political history. There has been a revival of women's history, and gender studies is flourishing, but these developments have brought about only one radical rethinking of mainstream narratives: Nadia Maria El Cheikh's Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity, which argues that Abbasid society's construction of early Islam and of its own self-image is profoundly gendered, because Women, gender relations, and sexuality are at the heart of the cultural construction of identity, as they are discursively used to fix moral boundaries and consolidate particularities and differences.…”