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One of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war oft
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Cornell UP,
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others
If you read the business pages of most newspapers, they are filled with stories about the sort of co
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) ex
Political Scientists Alison Gash and Dan Tichenor have a new book, Democracy's Child: Young People a
In The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is that the world is bound together by shared challe
In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile co
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at ot
This week, RBI Director John Torpey talked with William Hurst, Professor of Political Science at Cam
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explo
In The Federal Reserve: A New History (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Robert Hetzel draws on a
Inna Perheentupa's book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance an
These days it seems that nobody is satisfied with American democracy. Critics across the ideological
Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace (USIP
In Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Cornell UP, 2020), Tani
Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers Universi
How and why do rebel groups initially form? Prevailing scholarship has attributed the emergence of a
In mid-September of this year, a young Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died under suspicious circums
