At SOAS we interrogate the great challenges of our time - climate change, political and social polarisation, and inequality - through a global lens. Our mission is to develop local and global ...

Ma, Jun, (eds.), Caldecott, Ben, (eds.) and Volz, Ulrich, (eds.) (2020). Paris: Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System.

Authors Dr Yonit Manor-Percival and Professor Janet Dine join us to speak about their latest book Post-Colonial Globalisation: Law, power and actors in the 21st Century. Humanity is perhaps facing its ...

Despite growing concerns over China’s military build-up and modernization there have been few attempts to understand the growth of China’s defence budget, its comparative size or composition.

A student-led uprising overthrew the increasingly authoritarian Awami League government in Bangladesh in August. What triggered this uprising? How did such an apparently robust regime suddenly lose ...

The complete distribution of exploitation in the US population is derived and its dynamics explored over the last six decades. It is shown that, in line with intuition, exploitation status correlates ...

This October, the Wolfson Gallery at the SOAS library is hosting a photo exhibition entitled 'Nobody is Born a Slave: The Struggle for Freedom in Contemporary Mali’ by Fatoma Coulibaly (aka BakooCly).

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The Bantu language family of about 350-400 languages shows a high degree of linguistic variation. Previous studies of variation in Bantu have typically focused on large-scale phonological and lexical ...

Alex Dryden, Dr Yuen Lo and Professor Ulrich Volz presented their research on the impact of disasters on sovereign debt at the 3rd Public Debt Management Conference hosted by the World Bank in ...

How have government policies, corporate media, restrictions on protest and lack of voter choice affected democracy in the UK? Hosted by SOAS ICOP, a panel of experts explores recent attacks on our ...

Deputy President Paul Mashatile set out South Africa’s plans for its 2025 presidency of the G20 Summit during an address at SOAS on 2 October. The event, held during his working visit to the UK, ...