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When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced…
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi…
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery – working harder, doin…
The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure …
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these histories against an idealized, essentialized narra…
How do authoritarian political leaders use the built environment to shape understandings of national identity and history? How do major urban developm…
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Occ…
Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institut…
The common-sense way of thinking about what representatives should do in democracies tends to revolve around the concept of responsiveness: representa…
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Missi…
How do ideologies of development shape the perceptions of security threats of US foreign policymakers and the political and military leaders of develo…
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as …
In 2007, Ecuador joined the Latin American “Pink Tide” by electing a left-wing president, Rafael Correa, who voiced opposition to US imperialism and a…
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and M…
The success of populist politicians and the emergence of social justice movements around the world, and the recent demonstrations against police viole…
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police a…
During the opening decades of the Cold War, US policymakers and academics used modernization theory to provide an alternative model to communism for i…
Richard Lachmann’s First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, 2020) is a two-for-one deal. The f…