HASTAC Commons | Simon Stevens | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/simonstevens/activity/ Activity feed for Simon Stevens. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:29:52 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0dc070050119822a296d4adb3915febb Simon Stevens deposited Non-Alignment and the United States https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822896/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:21:14 +0000 Essay-review on Robert B. Rakove, ‘Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Dr Rakove’s response to my review can be read here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/19474/discussions/42201/robert-b-rakoves-response-simon-stevenss-review-kennedy-johnson-and.

]]> 0 432e6a27d2961c04c31f46bb871222af Simon Stevens deposited The External Struggle against Apartheid: New Perspectives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822895/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:17:29 +0000 Stevens reviews Ryan Irwin’s ‘Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order’ (2012) and Rob Skinner’s ‘The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid: Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c. 1919–64’ (2010), two of the first published studies from an emerging stream of more detached and criti…[Read more]

]]> 0 b071e9f44dee1a15dff3e426efd6c7d3 Simon Stevens deposited The Turn to Sabotage by The Congress Movement in South Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822894/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:14:22 +0000 Why did leaders of the Congress movement in South Africa abandon their exclusive reliance on non-violent means in the struggle against apartheid, form an armed unit (Umkhonto we Sizwe), and launch a campaign of spectacular sabotage bombings of symbols of apartheid in 1961? None of the earlier violent struggles from which Congress leaders drew…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d6bc43e00e7515e7d0e549c59a71497 Simon Stevens deposited Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822885/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:39:56 +0000 The Congress movement in South Africa was transformed in the early 1960s from a movement committed to the exclusive use of non-violent means in the struggle against apartheid to one focused on rural guerrilla warfare as a free-standing and sufficient first step towards ‘all-out war’ and the armed seizure of power. But few, if any, of the par…[Read more]

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