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Israel Under Netanyahu: Populism and Democratic DeclineNeta Oren Discussions of democratic backsliding typically include examples from Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and even the United States, but rarely a mention of Israel. Neta Oren asks: Should scholars include Israel in this list? Should Benjamin Netanyahu be considered a populist leader? Are there lessons about populism and democratic decline to be learned from the Israeli case?
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Israel’s National Identity: The Changing Ethos of ConflictNeta Oren In a country whose citizens have experienced prolonged exposure to intractable conflict, are there unique features to be found in Israeli society’s core beliefs? And how—and to what effect—have those beliefs changed across the decades? To answer these questions, Neta Oren deeply explores Israel's political culture.
Oren focuses especially on two circular processes: the More > | ![]() |
Migrant Remittances and Development in the Global EconomyManuel Orozco Manuel Orozco moves beyond the numbers to provide a uniquely comprehensive, historically informed overview and analysis of the complex role of migrant remittances in the global economy.
How do patterns of migration and remittances differ across regions? What kinds of regulatory and institutional frameworks best support the contributions of remittances to local development? What has been the More > | ![]() |
Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life HistoryWambui Waiyaki Otieno, edited and with an introduction by Cora AnnPresley Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, Kenyan activist and wife of the late S.M. Otieno, recounts her involvement in nearly a half-century of East African politics: her years in the Mau Mau movement, her role in women’s organizations under the Kenyatta and the Moi regimes, and the controversy surrounding her husband’s burial. Her personal narratives and anecdotes paint not only a detailed More > | |
Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia?David B. Ottaway Mohammed bin Salman. A monarch-to-be without scruples? Or a visionary seeking a path to global power? A social reformer determined to bring his country into the twenty-first century? Or just another brutal dictator? A leader on the road to greatness, or one destined to follow in the footsteps of Icarus? Veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent David Ottaway draws on more than a half-century More > | ![]() |
The Arab World Upended: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Tunisia and EgyptDavid B. Ottaway After the autocratic regimes in the seemingly unassailable police states of Tunisia and Egypt suddenly collapsed in 2011, the Islamic parties that took over quickly succumbed in turn to further massive uprisings, this time by disaffected secularists and, in the case of Egypt, with the support of the army. What explains this? And why do the current regimes in both countries remain so More > | ![]() |
Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence?Philip Oxhorn and Pamela K. Starr, editors The result of an ongoing collaborative effort, this book analyzes the constraints faced by Latin American countries as they seek both to consolidate fragile democratic regimes and to restore economic dynamism in the context of a new, outward-oriented development model.
The authors focus on the relationship between the two goals, highlighting the interplay of societal and state-level actors and More > | |
Road to Europe [ a novel]Ferdinand Oyono, translated by Richard Bjornson Oyono’s third novel is the bittersweet, first-person story of Aki Barnabas, a young Cameroonian scholar who seeks to become “someone” by using the rules of the colonial system to his personal advantage.
Failing in his nearly ten-year effort to win a scholarship to Paris, sacrificing his very self in a futile quest for prestige, Barnabas becomes lost at home and unwanted abroad. More > | |
The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá RevisitedRichard Pace Massive changes have engulfed the Brazilian Amazon region in the forty years since Charles Wagley’s landmark study, Amazon Town, was first published. In his engaging restudy, Richard Pace explores today’s "Amazon Town" (Gurupá), where development efforts have left little untouched, little familiar.
Focusing on the actions of the community as it faces new opportunities More > | |
The Emerging Church: Religion at the MarginsJosh Packard If a church resists rules, rituals, and dogma, what holds it together? Josh Packard explores the inner workings of the Emerging Church, revealing how a movement that rejects organizational trappings and embraces a do-it-yourself ethic has managed to create a distinctive place for itself at the margins of mainstream Christianity.
Packard demystifies the More > | ![]() |