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Life on the divide: the Buriad people and the world’s longest border

07 Apr 2013

A major project – Where Rising Powers Meet – looks at life along the border that separates Russia, China and Mongolia. Among the researchers involved...

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Varosha, Cyprus, where an abandoned resort has become a tourist attraction

The centre will not hold: what happens when empires collide and collapse

04 Dec 2012

Scholars from more than ten institutions will be gather in Cambridge later this week to share research that shines a light on what happens when...

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