The age of change

how urban youth are transforming African politics

Africa is undergoing an astounding transformation that will usher in a new era of political volatility and experimentation in the coming years. The region is in the midst of a historically unprecedented demographic surge that has skewed the median age in most countries to below ...

America & Islam

soundbites, suicide bombs, and the road to Donald Trump

FINALIST, RELIGION NEWS ASSOCIATION "EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING" BOOK AWARD Donald Trump's weaponization of Islamophobia in his first campaign for U.S. president shocked the world. Yet his promise to end the Gaza war rallied many American Muslims to his side in the 2024 ...

Contemporary Japan

What have been the fundamental shifts in Japanese society over the past decade? And what has remained the same? What will the country look like in five years from now? Introducing you to all aspects of Japanese society, culture, politics, economy, geography and history, this ...

Revolutions thwarted

Poland, South Africa, Iran, Brazil, and the legacies of Communism

Inspired by the Marxian idea that the emancipation of the working class must always be the act of the working class itself, John Rose has written a book that is itself a political inspiration. He offers a comparative analysis of four mass workers’ movements in ...

Silk mirage

through the looking glass in Uzbekistan

Silk Mirage is a compelling portrait of Uzbekistan, a country at the heart of the ancient Silk Road and now the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this strategic land in Central Asia. In 2016, the long-ruling dictator ...

Gobiernos locales en Iberoamérica

Retos y oportunidades

En las ciudades se concentra el poder político y económico, y se produce la mayor parte de la actividad cultural y científica; pero también son expresión de exclusión social, deterioro ambiental, violencia y deshumanización. Estos y otros muchos problemas que afligen a las sociedades contemporáneas ...

Sistemas políticos en Europa

Scandal

why politicians survive controversy in a partisan era

Once, it was thought, a scandal was the kiss of death for a political career. Today, however, surviving scandal seems to be the norm. Donald Trump has weathered-and even perhaps benefited from-controversies that would have been unimaginable for virtually any other candidate. Prominent figures in ...

The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan

A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate. The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and ...

American Contradiction

revolution and revenge from the 1950s to now

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama-and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one ...

Los diarios de 'Perez'

la agonía de la democracia en Estados Unidos

Cuando jugaba al fútbol en Chile, hace 55 años, mi apodo era Pérez, por las tres primeras letras de mi nombre. Intento imaginar cómo habría sido mi vida hoy si me hubiera llamado Adán Pérez. Adam Przeworski (profesor emérito en New York University), seguramente la ...

East Asia's grand strategies

a twelve country comparison

An in-depth exploration of the strategic dynamics shaping East Asia's future on the world stage East Asia is the epicenter of twenty-first-century geopolitics, where military, economic, and diplomatic strategies intersect in complex and often unpredictable ways. As the region becomes increasingly central to global ...

The US presidency

power, responsibility, and accountability

In The U.S. Presidency, E. Thomas Sullivan and Richard W. Painter examine the evolving state of presidential power in the United States, specifically facilitating discussion and debate concerning the power, responsibility, and accountability of U.S. Presidents. How is power acquired? How is it ...

The Great Transformation

China's road from revolution to reform

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "A superb history of China's transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Chen and Westad-two of the best archival historians of Communist China writing today-coolly but vividly recount the ...

Slow poison

Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the making of the Ugandan State

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the ...

Political conflict in Pakistan

Political conflict is endemic to a postcolonial state such as Pakistan. Reformulation of the political system after independence draws on a gradual encroachment of tradition defined in terms of identity and ideology over modernity represented by institutional design and citizen orientations. Partition led to structural ...

Constitutional ambiguity and the interpretation of presidential power

Examines the role of constitutional ambiguity across the entire spectrum of American history and how it impacts our interpretation of presidential power. While the rise of autocratic presidential powers has been widely noted by scholars in recent years, with calls by some for a stronger ...

Japón en 100 preguntas

¿Un modelo en decadencia?

¿Sigue siendo Japón una potencia innovadora? ¿Sus tradiciones frenan su desarrollo social? ¿Su relación con China está condenada al conflicto? ¿Puede ser un actor importante en el escenario internacional? ¿Son sólidas sus relaciones con Estados Unidos? Tras dominar el panorama económico mundial a finales del ...

People v. the court

the next revolution in constitutional law

The Constitution divides power between the government and We the People. It grants We the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over the government through our elected representatives. The Supreme Court has abused its power of judicial review and subverted popular control of ...

Rogue elephant

how Republicans went from the party of business to the party of chaos

Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes at work for decades. Providing a new perspective on figures from Newt Gingrich and ...