Republican Beijing
May 4, 2015
Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for
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Making Enemies
May 4, 2015
The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government—even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led
Struggles of Voice
May 1, 2015
Over the last two decades, indigenous populations in Latin America have achieved a remarkable level of visibility and political effectiveness, particularly in Ecuador and Bolivia. In Struggles of Voice, José
Japan Rising
May 1, 2015
In Japan Rising, Kenneth B. Pyle explores the remarkable history of Japan’s shifting foreign policy over the last 150 years. He identifies the common threads that bind the divergent strategies
State in Society
May 1, 2015
The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal’s “state-in-society” approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines but
The Palestinian People
May 1, 2015
Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the
Shifting Sands
May 1, 2015
Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia
May 1, 2015
This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage
Japan’s Dual Civil Society
May 1, 2015
This book provides an overview of the state of Japan’s civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized
Religion and Human Security
April 27, 2015
This book explores the long-unstudied relationship between religion and human security throughout the world. The 1950s marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary religious revival, during which religious political-parties