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Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao’s China, Guevara’s Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of twentieth-century communist guerilla warfare still echoes in contemporary warfare as armed Islamist groups, often seen as violently opposed to leftist…
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Everyone knows the story of the World Champion New York Knicks. Led by their captain and Finals MVP, an undersized, left-handed, second-round pick who made himself into an NBA superstar. Celebrities sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden to watch their team’s historic title run. Winning the NBA Finals on the road in five games against […] The post 53 Years in the Making appeared first on…
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Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. […] The post Death and Memory in the Digital Age: Three…
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What are meta-institutions? How are they different from institutions? Why do they matter for the political economy of development and governance under complexity? How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, 2016) introduces the concept of meta-institutions and reveals the form it took in reform-era China (1980s-2012). Yuen Yuen Ang defines meta-institutions as higher-order […]…
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In Rogue States, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. Throughout a series of crises from 1981 to 1991, the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush recognized that emerging threats to global security—terrorism, regional aggression, […] The post Rogue States: Three Questions…
