We specialise in the study of the global empires that have defined so much of the world for centuries, and which continue to profoundly shape it today.

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My study focuses on processes of internal and local change that have often been obscured by dominant narratives of colonial and postcolonial modernity. CIPS provides a forum for examining the tensions experienced by “modern” non-Western societies between their own trajectories of development and the models of development they have been compelled to adopt.
Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
Lecturer in History (Medieval and Modern Islamic and Iranian History)