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Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South
You may know the term “Machiavellian,” but where does the word really come from? Niccolò Machiavelli
In The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (Henry Holt, 2022) New York
In 1951, following the Holocaust and Second World War, Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitari
Are the Afghan Taliban now unbeatable? They have had two remarkable victories, first seeing off the
Given that we live in an era roiled by concerns about how democratic supposedly democratic countries
The EU, writes Loukas Tsoukalis, is “a strange vehicle … unlike any others on the roads of the world
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies.First, we hear the story
In March of 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the
Warzones are sometimes described as lawless, but this is rarely the case. Armed insurgents often rep
When Russia occupied the Crimea in 2014, a term appeared called “hybrid warfare” to describe the doc
The Western coalition supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia has so far been thought to be solid
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order (Verso, 2021) offers a critical l
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased t
Alexander Kirshner’s book Legitimate Opposition (Yale UP, 2022) can be seen as a reaction to the pol
Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place wi
In the 1770s, the American colonies were working up to a revolution. But while the colonists were in
A standard way of proceeding in political philosophy is to start with some form of conceptual inquir
For nearly two decades, the United States devoted more than $2 billion towards democracy promotion i
Sara Brown and Stephen Smith have edited a much needed and fascinating compilation of essays on the
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