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Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge UP, 2025) provides a fresh theory connecting war a…
The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of election…
China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a marke…
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment. For the first time in history, most people live in …
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly …
Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is …
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking accoun…