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    For Hannah Arendt, solidarity was neither universal nor an effective political force

    After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim.

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    David Kim (right; photo by Peggy McInerny) and the cover of his new book on Hannah Arendt. The volume draws on his extensive research on Arendt's publications, unpublished documents, private letters, radio and television interviews, newspaper clippings and archival marginalia.
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    Imperialism cloaked in the rule of law

    UCLA geographer Shaina Potts places her analysis of the wide geographic application of U.S. commercial law after World War II within a specific framework of imperialism: one that cloaks the exertion of state power in economic and legal terms, effectively removing financial issues from the political sphere.

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    Her new book, explained Shaina Potts, “traces the extension of U.S. judicial authority beyond official U.S. political borders since roughly World War Two, looking specifically at how judicial authority has increasingly been exercised over the [transnational] economic activities of sovereign governments — mostly postcolonial states.”
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Negotiation as a tool of war

Eric Min, assistant professor of political science and global studies at UCLA, uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine how nations use negotiations during war in his new book, "Words of War."

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Making contemporary Chinese fiction accessible to Americans

UCLA professor Michael Berry has to date translated 11 Chinese-language works of fiction, three of which were published in early 2025. Among them is "Dead Souls," the last book in a trilogy by one of China's most celebrated science fiction writers, Han Song.

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Meet Carmen Anders: Leading students beyond borders

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Global studies student writes thesis with support of Undergraduate Research Scholarship

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Music, language and finding a voice at UCLA

“It's very interdisciplinary,” said senior Sydney Reimer of the graduate program she will begin in Berlin this fall. “[I]t feels like it's going to draw on my background here [at UCLA] and help me apply that a bit more to active practices and make tangible impacts on the community.”

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Finding purpose through interdisciplinary learning

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A UCLA senior's path to community-driven change

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Stephen Acabado on tequila distillation theories

July 21, 2025. UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, writes in The Conversation that the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route (1565-1815) "may help explain how distilled agave spirits such as tequila came into being. While tequila is unmistakably a Mexican creation, the techniques used to produce it may owe something to Filipino sailors…" Continue Reading
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LA labor unions and immigrants

July 1, 2025. Speaking to The New York Review of Books about labor organizing history in Los Angeles, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado noted, "In Los Angeles, labor started organizing and seeing immigrants as the future in the late 1980s." Article author Piper French notes, "Then, in 1986, came Reagan's amnesty bill, which granted millions of immigrants legal status and made them potential new union... Continue Reading
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"Invasion" by whom? Mexican Americans remember the U.S. invasion of Mexico

Jun 15, 2025. “Mexican Americans have a saying here, ‘They didn't cross the border, the border crossed them," said Gaspar Rivera Salgado, director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, to The New York Times. The irony of accusations that Los Angeles has been "invaded" by immigrants is not lost on Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Rivera Salgado pointed out that their historical memory goes back to the invasion of Mexico... Continue Reading

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