Jonathan Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6102-0572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Arbitration versus Insolvency: Balancing Party Autonomy and Public Policy
This article examines the tension between arbitration and insolvency in common law jurisdictions. Focusing on the divergence created by the English decision in Salford Estates and the Privy Council decision in Sian Participation Corp v Halimeda International Ltd , it critically assesses their approaches to disputes over a creditor’s standing to present a winding-up petition. Through comparative analysis, including consideration of the judgment of…
Scale and the Limits of Inclusion in Diplomacy
This response to the Manifesto for New Diplomatic History ( ndh ) endorses its critique of Eurocentrism and its calls for greater inclusivity and interdisciplinarity. However, as a geographer, I foreground the importance of geographical scale and caution against power-laden implications of concepts like global diplomacy. As diplomatic historians are increasingly drawn to the study of practices, informality, and subaltern voices, expanding the con…
Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training
This paper focuses on diplomatic training as a site for exploring the tensions in late colonialism around sovereignty and self-government. Training for the diplomats of soon to be independent states was understood by imperial governments as an ambiguous issue in this period immediately pre-independence: it offered the potential for the former metropole to sustain power and influence within a rapidly changing world, whilst at the same time challen…
Diplomatic Training and Spaces of Anticolonial Worldmaking
Focusing on training for African diplomats from newly independent countries in Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, this paper makes the case for spaces of diplomatic training as sites for anticolonial “worldmaking” (Getachew 2019; Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self‐Determination ). Recent scholarship has highlighted the value of African leaders’ visions but largely overlooked the actors, spaces, and practices through which these visio…
Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration. An earlier approach to the papacy by Alexios’ predecessor, Michael VII, has also been highlighted. One piece of evidence has been neglected, however. According…
Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training
What might methodological approaches drawing on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) offer to sub‐disciplines in geography which have traditionally been dominated by qualitative and often micro‐scale research, such as historical or political geography? How might these approaches—often understood as opposing—be brought together to advance transnational research in particular? This article responds to these quest…
Beyond the stereotype: Educational underachievement in the Controlled sector in Northern Ireland
The Development of a Multi-Dimensional Coding System to Categorise Negative Online Experiences Including Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Adolescents with Lower Socioeconomic Status
This original paper, based on data from the Erasmus+Blurred Lives Project, presents a new multi-dimensional categorisation model to describe negative online experiences, including forms of cyberbullying, based on a study of internet usage among over N = 2,500 adolescents with lower socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds across five European countries. The paper first sets out the rationale for the development of a new coding system, before descr…
Bessarion’s Treasure: Editing, Translating and Interpreting Bessarion’s Literary Heritage
Geopolitics of decolonization: Carnegie Endowment’s diplomatic training program 1960–73
This paper considers the case of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s ‘Programs in Diplomacy’, which from 1960 to 73 provided international, bilingual training for the diplomats of ‘newer states’ – former colonies that gained independence after 1945. Drawing on archival research in three continents, we can see that the spaces and practices of diplomatic training through these programmes were inherently geopolitical: they would shape s…
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats
Throughout the twentieth century, colonies emerged from the so-called tutelage of European imperial powers to represent themselves as sovereign states. One consequence of this change was an expansion in overseas diplomatic training, aimed at inducting into international life the hundreds of diplomats required to staff new foreign services. This paper interrogates the pedagogical and (geo)political practice of tutelage-where guardianship and instr…
Understanding Diplomatic Training from the Global South: Transnational Networks and (Post)colonial Connections
Modern diplomacy is a Western and colonial project.1 Nevertheless, as a growing body of work is demonstrating, diplomacies and diplomats of the Global South have had a distinct influence on the development of global international relations through the second half of the twentieth century.2
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage
This article uses an account of the Amazigh/Berber (pl. Imazighen) diaspora in France to demonstrate how approaching diaspora using assemblage thinking can help us to understand its emergent territorialities. It argues that the discourses and practices of association members frame the spaces of ‘Tamazgha’ (the ‘land of the Imazighen’), at the same time as framing the internal and external boundaries of the diaspora itself. Using assemblage thinki…
A Worthless Prince? Andreas Palaiologos in Rome 1464–1502: The Renewed Version
Andreas Palaiologos (1453–1502), the nephew of Emperor Constantine XI and claimant to the Byzantine imperial title from exile in Rome, has been dismissed by historians as an insignificant person who spent most of his life in poverty thanks to his own improvidence. This article exploits documentation from the Archivio Segreto Vaticano, the Archivio di Stato di Venezia and other archive collections to demonstrate that many of the charges made again…
Refugees and International Networks after the Fall of Constantinople, 1453–1475
This article will investigate the extent to which the contacts made by Byzantine envoys to western Europe from 1394 onwards were later used by them and by their families to secure a safe haven following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It will examine first the case of Italy and some examples which have been addressed by previous scholarship, as well as one less well documented case. It will then consider whether the same link between envoys a…
Imazighen of France; articulations of an indigenous diaspora
Indigenous diasporas are an emerging social and political phenomenon, and conceptually offer a productive avenue for critical research in the study of ethnicity and migration. The politics of Indigenous peoples in diaspora have not received enough scholarly attention, and this article seeks to respond by examining how indigeneity is articulated by the many Amazigh (non-Arab North African) cultural associations of France. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s …
The Lost World of Byzantium
A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world’s greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapte…
Linda Yuretich (trans.), The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses. Translated Texts for Byzantinists 6. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 320
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Sport and Secessionism
Nativist-populism, the internet and the geopolitics of indigenous diaspora
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade, by Anthony Kaldellis
A narrative of political history is a new departure for Anthony Kaldellis, whose considerable output to date has focused on historiography, identity, classical reception and political thought. It is a tribute to his versatility as a scholar that he has once again produced a stimulating and superbly researched piece of work. It is, as he himself points out (p. xxviii), the first book-length treatment of this period for over a century and one that …
Barcelona, Beijing, Birmingham: Populism and English Art Schools in Transition
This article considers the impact of a range of contemporary political factors on the future role and status of English art schools, with a focus on questions of diversity, international student recruitment, globalisation and curriculum development. These factors primarily comprise: the Brexit vote in 2016, the UK government’s related hostility to international student recruitment (based on the erroneous idea that these students are surreptitious…
The End of Byzantium
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled the capital’s walls. During this bleak and uncertain time, ordinary Byzantines faced difficult decisions to protect their livelihoods and families agains…
Becoming-Indian
This chapter examines how travellers to the New World and to India made sense of their encounters by framing them specifically in reference to the performance techniques and even the architecture of the theatre, in ways both positive and negative. It first considers John Smith’s description of what he calls a ‘Virginia Maske’ in his Generall History of Virginia (1624), a reminder of how the specific textures of early modern theatricality rather t…
The Global Contemporary Art World
Gatekeepers, Poachers and Pests in the Globalized Contemporary Art World System
This article examines the rise in the global value of contemporary Chinese art since the 1980s, setting this development in the context of a wider theorization of globalization processes. This contextualization involves a historical analysis of the institutional and market dominance of Western art organizations, discourses and socio-economic power in the world. Identified as ‘gatekeepers’, the significance of these agencies – such as the auctione…
The Origins of the Conflict Between Malenkov and Zhdanov: 1939-1941
Over twenty years ago Merle Fainsod warned against underestimating the "fluid play of bureaucratic politics" in the Stalinist political system. However, scholars have generally regarded the Secretariat of the Central Committee (CC) of the VKP(b) as immune to this process during Stalin's reign as general secretary. They have assumed either that Stalin did not permit conflict between the directors of the various bureaucratic divisions in the Secret…
The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage
This article uses an account of the Amazigh/Berber (pl. Imazighen) diaspora in France to demonstrate how approaching diaspora using assemblage thinking can help us to understand its emergent territorialities. It argues that the discourses and practices of association members frame the spaces of ‘Tamazgha’ (the ‘land of the Imazighen’), at the same time as framing the internal and external boundaries of the diaspora itself. Using assemblage thinki…
Imazighen of France; articulations of an indigenous diaspora
Indigenous diasporas are an emerging social and political phenomenon, and conceptually offer a productive avenue for critical research in the study of ethnicity and migration. The politics of Indigenous peoples in diaspora have not received enough scholarly attention, and this article seeks to respond by examining how indigeneity is articulated by the many Amazigh (non-Arab North African) cultural associations of France. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s …
Nativist-populism, the internet and the geopolitics of indigenous diaspora
An English Utilitarian Looks at Spanish-American Independence: Jeremy Bentham’s Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria
On August 31 1832, when news arrived of the death of the English utilitarian philosopher and jurisconsult, Jeremy Bentham, the Guatemalan Statesman José del Valle introduced a resolution to the congress of the Central American Republic requesting all its members to wear mourning as a mark of respect. He also took the opportunity to bestow fulsome praise on Bentham, not only as the sage who had taught the art of legislation and government, but als…
Political Elites in the USSR: Central Leaders and Local Cadres from Lenin to Gorbachev
This important book presents Professor Rigby's key writings on the creation of elites in the Soviet Union. It shows how the nomenclature system evolved as a key instrument for directing and controlling all spheres of national life, drawing its elite echelons together in a single bureaucratic ruling class
Understanding Diplomatic Training from the Global South: Transnational Networks and (Post)colonial Connections
Modern diplomacy is a Western and colonial project.1 Nevertheless, as a growing body of work is demonstrating, diplomacies and diplomats of the Global South have had a distinct influence on the development of global international relations through the second half of the twentieth century.2
El Harka: Perceptions of the Migration‐Development Nexus in Post‐Revolution Tunis
In the 3 years since the ousting of Tunisia's dictator Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in January 2011, net emigration from Tunisia has doubled, suggesting a link between revolutionary politics and aspirations to emigrate. A large proportion of this emigration has taken the form of a clandestine crossing to Europe, locally called El Harka . This paper explores the complex interactions between the ‘migration‐development nexus’ and revolutionary national p…
Geopolitics of decolonization: Carnegie Endowment’s diplomatic training program 1960–73
This paper considers the case of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s ‘Programs in Diplomacy’, which from 1960 to 73 provided international, bilingual training for the diplomats of ‘newer states’ – former colonies that gained independence after 1945. Drawing on archival research in three continents, we can see that the spaces and practices of diplomatic training through these programmes were inherently geopolitical: they would shape s…
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats
Throughout the twentieth century, colonies emerged from the so-called tutelage of European imperial powers to represent themselves as sovereign states. One consequence of this change was an expansion in overseas diplomatic training, aimed at inducting into international life the hundreds of diplomats required to staff new foreign services. This paper interrogates the pedagogical and (geo)political practice of tutelage-where guardianship and instr…
Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training
What might methodological approaches drawing on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) offer to sub‐disciplines in geography which have traditionally been dominated by qualitative and often micro‐scale research, such as historical or political geography? How might these approaches—often understood as opposing—be brought together to advance transnational research in particular? This article responds to these quest…
Introduction: The ABC of Globalization and Contemporary Art
This selection of essays reflects and problematizes the range of issues, themes, questions, dilemmas and opportunities posed by the topic of globalization's relation to contemporary art. The compet
Publicising the Crusade: English Bishops and the Jubilee Indulgence of 1455
According to the Byzantine scholar Andronicus Callistus, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453 was a cataclysm of such magnitude that it was mourned not only by the Greeks, but by people of every nation. This may sound like the type of rhetorical flourish with which Byzantine authors were fond of adorning their works, yet recent scholarship has tended, if anything, to corroborate Callistus' assertion. Over the past few ye…
Choice of Law in Tort—Blending in with the Landscape of the Conflict of Laws
The reformed choice of law in tort rules contained in the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 have proved a source of great controversy. This piece attempts to show that there are wider concerns fuelled by the Act. It seeks to demonstrate that one can not reform one area of the Conflict of Laws (such as choice of law in tort) in isolation from other areas (such as jurisdiction in tortious matters and choice of law in con…
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev
Ideology and Soviet Politics
There has been general agreement that the official ideology of Marxism-Leninism plays a central role in Soviet politics. To at least some Western scholars, the importance of the official ideology is such that we are justified in regarding the Soviet political system as an ‘ideology’ or even ‘utopia in power’, with the official ideology functioning as a kind of blueprint which determines, or at least prescribes, the course of that society’s develo…
Diversity in International Communism: A Documentary Record, 1961–1963
Examines the differences between communist parties and states and provides the reader with documentation on major trends within the international communist movement. Specifically examines the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Albanian Crisis, the Chinese position, the East European communist parties, communist parties in Asian socialist states, and others
Diversity in International Communism. A Documentary Record, 1961-1963
Scientists in the Shaping of America
Journal Article Scientists in the Shaping of America. By Jonathan Harris. (Menlo Park, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1971. 142 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. Paper, $1.72.) Get access George H. Daniels George H. Daniels Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 119–120, https://doi.org/10…
Dokumenty vneshnei politiki SSSR, tom semnadtsatyi (1934)
Historicus* on Stalin
The Soviet Union in World Affairs: A Documentary Analysis, 1964-1972
The Origins of the Conflict Between Malenkov and Zhdanov: 1939-1941
Over twenty years ago Merle Fainsod warned against underestimating the "fluid play of bureaucratic politics" in the Stalinist political system. However, scholars have generally regarded the Secretariat of the Central Committee (CC) of the VKP(b) as immune to this process during Stalin's reign as general secretary. They have assumed either that Stalin did not permit conflict between the directors of the various bureaucratic divisions in the Secret…
The Sino-Soviet Territorial Dispute, 1949-1964
Accounting Changes. Accounting Policies. Business Combinations. Cash Flow Statement. Changing Prices. Consolidated Financial Statement. Contingencies. Convertible Debt and Debt with Warrants. Current Assets and Current Liabilities. Deferred Compensation Contracts. Depreciable Assets and Depreciation. Development Stage Enterprises. Earnings Per Share. Equity Method. Extinguishment of Debt. Financial Instruments. Foreign Operations and Exchange. Fu…
The sociology of art
Europe
International Relations and Politics
The Uses of the Real
The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories by John Tagg , Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988, 242 pp., 40 illus., £7.95
Ideology and Soviet Politics
There has been general agreement that the official ideology of Marxism-Leninism plays a central role in Soviet politics. To at least some Western scholars, the importance of the official ideology is such that we are justified in regarding the Soviet political system as an ‘ideology’ or even ‘utopia in power’, with the official ideology functioning as a kind of blueprint which determines, or at least prescribes, the course of that society’s develo…
A Question of Compulsion
Antifascism in American Art by Cécile Whiting , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989, 238 pp., 107 b. & w. illus., £27.50
Soviet Foreign Policy: New Dynamics, New Themes
Part 1 Domestic foreign policy determinants - new realites, new perspectives: the domestic politics of foreign policy, Jerry Hough Gorbachev's Thinking about East-West relations - causes and consequences, Paul Marantz domestic and economic aspects of Gorbachev's foreign policy, David R.Jones. Part 2 New arms control initiatives: doctrinal change - the Ogarkov revolution, the scissors phenomenon, defensive defence, C.G.Jacobsen Gorbachev's arms co…
Europe
Nationalizing Art: The Community Art Centre Programme of the Federal Art Project 1935 – 1943
Political Elites in the USSR: Central Leaders and Local Cadres from Lenin to Gorbachev
This important book presents Professor Rigby's key writings on the creation of elites in the Soviet Union. It shows how the nomenclature system evolved as a key instrument for directing and controlling all spheres of national life, drawing its elite echelons together in a single bureaucratic ruling class
Vadim Andreevich Medvedev and the Transformation of Party Ideology, 1988-1990
M ikhail S. Gorbachev consistently served as his own chief ideologist ever since his selection as general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in March 1985. His concerted assault on Stalinist theory and practice, his efforts to undermine party officials' traditional dominance within the CPSU, his support for a mixed economy, for the democratization of moribund representative institutions, and his election as the powerful President of t…
The Cold War is Over-Again
Two Byzantine craftsmen in fifteenth-century London
It is generally thought, largely on the basis of a letter of Cardinal Bessarion, that, by the 1440s, the Byzantine Empire had been completely overtaken by the West in all spheres of technical expertise. This idea is challenged the evidence of some documents the Public Record Office in London which show that, between at least 1441 and 1483, two gold wire drawers from Constantinople, named Andronicus and Alexius Effomatos, lived and worked in the E…
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev
An English Utilitarian Looks at Spanish-American Independence: Jeremy Bentham’s Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria
On August 31 1832, when news arrived of the death of the English utilitarian philosopher and jurisconsult, Jeremy Bentham, the Guatemalan Statesman José del Valle introduced a resolution to the congress of the Central American Republic requesting all its members to wear mourning as a mark of respect. He also took the opportunity to bestow fulsome praise on Bentham, not only as the sage who had taught the art of legislation and government, but als…
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism
This new addition to the Cambridge Companions to Literature series consists of 14 essays by British and American specialists in the field.One of the major aims of the collection, as the ediror, Jill Kraye, makes clear in her introduction, is to provide an English-speaking readership with accessible discussions of some of the major issues of Renaissance humanism.The book achieves this aim admirably.Both the editor and the authors have clearly gone…
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: 'Legislator of the World': Writings on Codification, Law, and Education: Writings on Codification, Law, and Education
Political science (54 works) · Law (47 works) · History (42 works) · Law (35 works) · Art (33 works) · Sociology (29 works) · History (27 works) · Politics (27 works) · Ancient history (23 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (21 works)