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Lived International - A Life in International Relations

English · Paperback / Softback

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Demonstrating that a life of praxis-living international relations-yields more insight than a life of theory alone, Steven Chan provides an antidote to a purely conceptual approach to International Relations. It is also the work of a poet with a distinguished literary reputation, recounting travel and poetry, engagement and responsibility.

List of contents










1. Receiving the International
2. Facing the International
3. Facing the Local
4. Facing the Contradictions
5. Facing the Tragedies
6. Facing Down History
7. Facing the Tragedy of Our Days
8. The Academy and the International


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Stephen Chan was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth in 2010 - 'For services to Africa and Higher Education' - the same year he was awarded the International Studies Association accolade, Eminent Scholar in Global Development. Earlier a newspaper editor and literary publisher, and an international civil servant stationed in Africa, he has held responsible positions - including Deanships - at three British universities; held the George Soros Chair at the Central European University, and the Konrad Adenauer Chair at the elite Palestinian Bir Zeit University, among a string of other named and honorific appointments. He is Professor of World Politics at SOAS University of London, remains seconded to diplomatic engagements in Africa and the Middle East and heads the philanthropic Kwok Meil Wah Foundation. He has published 36 earlier scholarly books, five volumes of poetry, and three novels.


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Demonstrating that a life of praxis-living international relations-yields more insight than a life of theory alone, Steven Chan provides an antidote to a purely conceptual approach to International Relations. It is also the work of a poet with a distinguished literary reputation, recounting travel and poetry, engagement and responsibility.

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