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A product of the SSRC-MacArthur Program on Global Security and Cooperation, this volume maps the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet . . .
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Growing out of a workshop organized by the SSRC Program on Global Security and Cooperation, Empire and Dissent brings together senior Latin Americanists . . .
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Written by 2001 IDRF Fellow Maxim Waldstein, this book examines the history of Yuri Lotman’s Tartu (or Moscow-Tartu) School of Semiotics . . .
Read the rest of The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics.
In When Women Have Wings, 1998 IDRF Fellow Donna F. Murdock provides an insightful and detailed look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments . . .
Read the rest of When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia.
2001 IDRF Fellow Justin McDaniel’s Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions . . .
Read the rest of Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies).
Since Singapore declared independence from Malaysia in 1965, Chinese street opera has played a significant role in defining Singaporean identity. 1997 IDRF Fellow Tong Soon Lee reflects on their role . . .
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2001 IDRF Fellow Scott Gehlbach’s Representation Through Taxation challenges the conventional wisdom that politicians favor groups that are organized . . .
Read the rest of Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States.
In A Nation of Emigrants, 2003 IDRF Fellow David Fitzgerald explores an interesting question: what do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? . . .
Read the rest of A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration.
In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, 2001 IDRF fellow Eiko Maruko Siniawer demonstrates that the practice of politics in Japan has been dangerous . . .
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In Judicial Power and National Politics, 1999 IDRF Fellow Patricia J. Woods examines a controversial issue in the politics of many countries around the world: the increasing role that courts and justices have played in deeply charged political battles . . .
Read the rest of Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel.
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