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Rwanda’s Popular Genocide: A Perfect StormJean-Paul Kimonyo Why did Rwanda's rural Hutus participate so massively, and so personally, in the country's 1994 genocide of its Tutsi population? Given all that has been written already about this horrific episode, is there still more that can be learned? Answering these questions, Jean-Paul Kimonyo's social and economic history explores at the deepest level the role both of power relations among More > | ![]() |
Latin America in International Politics: Challenging US HegemonyJoseph S. Tulchin In recent years, the countries of Latin America have moved out from under the shadow of the United States to become active players in the international system. What changed? Why? And why did it take so long for that change to happen? To answer those questions, Joseph S. Tulchin explores the evolving role of Latin American states in world affairs from the early days of independence to the More > | ![]() |
Coping with Crisis in African StatesPeter M. Lewis and John W. Harbeson, editors Although large-scale conflicts, political upheavals, and social violence are common problems throughout Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their susceptibility to these crises and their capacities for responding effectively. What accounts for this variance? How do crises emerge, and how are they resolved? When are unexpected events most likely to spiral into crisis? Are there More > | ![]() |
The UN Security Council in the 21st CenturySebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone, and Bruno Stagno Ugarte, editors Winner of the Friends of ACUNS Book Award!
After grappling for more than two decades with the realities of the post–Cold War era, the UN Security Council must now meet the challenges of a resurgence of great power rivalry. Reflecting this new environment, The UN Security Council in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive view of the council's internal dynamics, its role and More > | ![]() |
Teaching the "Native": Behind the Architecture of an Unequal Educational SystemJoseph Daniel Reilly "In 2015 South African universities exploded. Statues fell, students protested, and the entire edifice of South African education was thrown into question. Teaching the Native provides an invaluable historical explanation for the controversies that currently bedevil South African education. Artfully written, with a keen eye for historical nuance and detail, Joseph Reilly takes us on an epic More > | ![]() |
Recovering Democracy in South AfricaRaymond Suttner Raymond Suttner brings together the best of his recent work to offer both an in-depth engagement with the current challenges facing South Africa and a damning account of the politics of the Zuma era. Notably, despite his strongly argued criticism of the country’s present political order, he does not leave the reader with a sense of pessimism, but instead points to ways in which South More > | ![]() |
Russia’s Far East: New Dynamics in Asia Pacific and BeyondRensselaer Lee and Artyom Lukin The strategically pivotal Russian Far East—a vast expanse stretching from Lake Baikal to the Pacific Ocean—is notable not only for its rich natural resources, but also for the economic challenges, internal dissent, and risks of foreign encroachment that it faces. Rensselaer Lee and Artyom Lukin explore the history, economics, and politics of the RFE in the context of its geopolitical More > | ![]() |
The Nonprofit World: Civil Society and the Rise of the Nonprofit SectorJohn Casey John Casey explores the expanding global reach of nonprofit organizations, examining the increasingly influential role not only of prominent NGOs that work on hot-button global issues, but also of the thousands of smaller, little-known organizations that have an impact on people's daily lives.
What do these nonprofits actually do? How and why have they grown exponentially? How are they More > | ![]() |
The Roots of Somali Political CultureM.J. Fox The fragmentation of the former Somali Democratic Republic into three distinctive entities, together with the events that have ensued since then, make for a complex political puzzle that raises a plethora of questions. M.J. Fox explores some of the most fundamental of those questions: Have the "three Somalias" of today always been as disparate as they are now? How deeply rooted are More > | ![]() |
Prison Life in Popular Culture: From "The Big House" to "Orange Is the New Black"Dawn K. Cecil Through the centuries, prisons were closed institutions, full of secrets and shrouded in mystery. But modern media culture has opened the gates. Dawn Cecil explores decades of popular culture—from Golden Age Hollywood films to YouTube videos, from newspapers to beer labels, hip-hop music, and children's books—to reveal how prison imagery shapes our understanding of who commits More > | ![]() |