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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 4 Apr 2023
    Paul D'Anieri

    Ukraine and Russia

    Where is the Path to Peace in Ukraine? Does the path to peace run through stalemate or victory? This is among the key issues dividing analysts and policymakers in the West. (In Ukraine, there is no debate. Victory over Russia is seen as being the bare minimum necessary to restore peace). As hard as ending […]

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  • 4 Apr 2023
    A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Stewart
    Jon Stewart

    The Crisis of Modern Nihilism and its Source

    It is often said that our age suffers from a crisis of nihilism. Despite all the wealth, benefits, and comforts produced by modern industrial countries, there is still a sense of malaise that something is lacking.

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  • 3 Apr 2023
    Marika Sosnowski

    Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria

    This book begins the task – for academics as well as policy-makers and conflict negotiators – of rethinking what ceasefires are and what are their potential ramifications. Over the past few decades, the conflict resolution field has moved towards more encompassing and nuanced theories about how violence is resolved and transformed and the dynamics surrounding […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Lars Brink, David Orden

    Farm Subsidies and International Trade Rules

    Farm subsidies and international trade rules are the subjects of a new 2023 book Agricultural Domestic Support under the WTO: Experience and Prospects. Why now? ‘It could not be more topical’ said a high-level trade official when the book appeared. The European Union, the United States, Japan, and many other countries supported and protected farm production massively […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Alexander Jabbari

    What happened to the Persianate in the age of nationalism?

    Iranian literary historian Muhammad-Taqi Bahar (1885-1951) together with Pakistani political and literary figures

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Mary E. Daly

    The battle to control female fertility in modern Ireland

    Ireland was the last country in the western world to make contraception legally available, and the debate over doing this was divisive. In 1981, one year after contraception became legal on a restricted basis, the Irish birth rate was two-thirds higher than in the rest of western Europe. The book examines the adoption of family […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Eve Tignol

    Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s

    In 1872, the night before a meeting about the progress of education among Indian Muslims, Nawab Mohsin ul-Mulk (1837-1907) woke up and realised that his companion, the famous Muslim reformer Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), was not beside him: When I went out of the room in his search, I saw him pacing up and down […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    Kelvin E. Y. Low

    Crafting Sensory Anthropology In/Of Asia

    What does an anthropology of the senses entail? What part do the senses play in everyday life in Asia across a variety of historical and contemporary contexts – stretching from the pre- to post-colonial and including the transnational? How are the senses connected to a range of everyday life domains that comprise religion, morality, foodways, […]

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