The United States spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. And Western nations in general spend far more than developing nations around the globe. Yet when Western nations have found themselves in conflicts in recent decades, their performance has been mi…
South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect
"This book will help students and scholars understand and historicise the idea of borders and borderlands. Globally, refugees are pushing across state borders seeking homes away from sites of conflict, genocide or climate disasters, in the process creating new borderlands. A tim…
South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect
"This book will help students and scholars understand and historicise the idea of borders and borderlands. Globally, refugees are pushing across state borders seeking homes away from sites of conflict, genocide or climate disasters, in the process creating new borderlands. A tim…
"In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this "sent-down" generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations o…
"In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this "sent-down" generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations o…
"In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this "sent-down" generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations o…
"Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the U…
"1 Introduction Power works by making it hard to challenge how power works. Sara Ahmed On the morning of 9 September 2016, a large crowd gathered at the convention centre of Hay Ryad, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the Moroccan capital Rabat. All those who mattered in th…
"1 Introduction Power works by making it hard to challenge how power works. Sara Ahmed On the morning of 9 September 2016, a large crowd gathered at the convention centre of Hay Ryad, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the Moroccan capital Rabat. All those who mattered in th…
"1 Introduction Power works by making it hard to challenge how power works. Sara Ahmed On the morning of 9 September 2016, a large crowd gathered at the convention centre of Hay Ryad, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the Moroccan capital Rabat. All those who mattered in th…
A constructivist approach to political behavior in India -- The emergency and the Jayaprakash Narayan Movement -- India under Gandhi : populism and partisans -- Checks and balances and the India against corruption movement -- United progressive alliance : technocrats and transfo…
"How do ideas shape government decision-making? Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping political behavior. These logics tend to explicate elite decision-making around electio…
"How do ideas shape government decision-making? Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping political behavior. These logics tend to explicate elite decision-making around electio…