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571. Publications & Writing
Soy, Cotton, and the Final Atlantic Forest Frontier
Publication by DPDF 2008 "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change" Fellow Peter Richards.From 1945 to 2000, the extent of Paraguay's Atlantic Forest was reduced from 73,000 to 12,000 square kilometers. Deforestation rates were exceptionally high from the late 1960s throug…
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572. Publications & Writing
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
In Europe and North America, Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? 2003 IDRF Fellow Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and…
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573. Publications & Writing
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo
First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo, these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse o…
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574. Publications & Writing
Starting from the Ground Up: Engagement in Haiti’s Agricultural Sector
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575. Publications & Writing
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Translated from Spanish, Los trabajos de la memoria, Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 2002. Sponsored by the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean. More info here. Ordering information for the Spanish edition . Buy from Amazon.
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576. Publications & Writing
State and Society in Conflict
This volume analyzes one of the most volatile regions in Latin America—the Andean states of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Crises in these countries during the last twenty-five years have endangered Latin America’s democracies and strained their relations wit…
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577. Publications & Writing
State and Stateless Violence in Somalia
Publication by DPDF 2009 "State Violence" Fellow Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh. Violent conflict has engulfed much of Somalia for decades. Marked most dramatically by the fall of Mohamed Siad Barre’s dictatorship early in 1991, southern Somalia remains in an untenable s…
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578. Publications & Writing
Strangers at the Gates: Movements and States in Contentious Politics
Authored by DPDF 2010 Contentious Politics research director, Sidney Tarrow This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics,…
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579. Publications & Writing
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by SSRC Program Director Joe Karaganis, explores digital technologies that are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textual and audio-vi…
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580. Publications & Writing
Subnational Comparative Research on Democracy: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Eduardo Moncada co-authored an article in the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Newsletter with Richard Snyder. What has the recent turn toward subnational analysis in comparative politics contributed to know…


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