http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/british-commonwealth Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:36:34 -0400 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:36:34 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1113/still-the-good-fight-the-commonwealth-of-nations-turn-60 By Rory Lowings - Once upon a time, Britain ruled the world. Fully a quarter of the Earth’s surface and population was united under the red, white and blue of the Empire. Had the British Empire remained a sclerotic, sedentary racial hierarchy, like the contemporary French and Portuguese empires, it might have died a slow, painful death, as did they. But Britain’s development of infrastructure, both in education and industry, facilitated the growth of national identities within the Commonwealth, whose claims upon independence grew in direct proportion to British decline during the Inter-War period. 3... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1113/still-the-good-fight-the-commonwealth-of-nations-turn-60 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1153/the-future-of-the-british-monarchy By James T. Williams - In this article I intend to examine the question of whether the Monarchy has a role in Britain’s future. In order to answer this question it is first important to define what exactly is the role of the Monarch in Britain today and then to examine whether the existence of the Monarchy is essential for that role to be performed. In order to arrive at a more balanced view of the Head of State’s role I will also take a comparative analysis of the roles performed by the British Head of State and her counterparts in other advanced Western democracies. To conclude I will question... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1153/the-future-of-the-british-monarchy http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1171/re-stating-the-case-for-monarchy By Robin Burls - Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Aberystwyth, to open the new extension of the National Library of Wales, has predictably generated considerable furore in the local media, political circles and even the academe. The familiar siren’s song wails for the abolition of the monarchy and optimistically urges the introduction of a political system that is more ‘representative’ and more ‘relevant’ to the British state as it staggers towards the twenty-first century. Now is clearly the time to remind ourselves of the superiority of monarchy as a political... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1171/re-stating-the-case-for-monarchy http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1158/a-question-of-identity By Edward Beavington - Pauline Hanson is the most controversial politician in Australia. Since early September, the Queensland MP has divided Australian opinion and dominated national news and documentary programmes. She has variously been described as the voice of the Australian subconscious and the Hitler of the southern hemisphere. The reason for these divisions was her maiden speech to the federal parliament in Canberra. A crude generalisation of her message was: Aborigines, stop ‘sponging off the state’, and Asians, go home. This article aims to examine Australia’s immigration history... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1158/a-question-of-identity