I gave up a long time ago any serious attempt to do historical research or any wish to be a serious professional historian. Nevertheless, by reasons of personal interests and education, I obviously keep being interested in history and historiography. One of the topics I was and still am interested in is the role of …
Continue reading Huế 1968: A turning point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
A couple of things have changed since I started this blog a few months ago. The most relevant thing is that I resolved to take a break – perhaps for good – from the international aid business. Secondly, for the last few months I have been working on the perhaps less glamorous, surely less paid, …
On a lazy Saturday evening, I happened to watch on Netflix a 2016 war movie, The Siege of Jadotville. The movie focus on a true episode of the UN intervention in Congo in 1961, when a company of Irish soldiers managed to successfully defend for six days their outpost, with no causality, against the attack …
Continue reading Of Irish Alamos, UN interventions and imperialistic aestethics
A sad day in Maban A few days ago, the compounds of the NGOs and UN organizations working in Maban County, in the north east of South Sudan, have been attacked and looted by a mob of local youth, allegedly enraged by the lack of employment opportunities with international organizations. That’s pretty much all I …
I have recently read 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric Cline. I am totally ignorant about ancient history, and perhaps because of this it made for a fascinating, if mildly disturbing, reading (as I guess any account of a civilization collapse would be). Cline, professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington …
Continue reading The end of the Bronze Age, complexity theory and international aid.
Seeking the link 