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631. Publications & Writing
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
In this book, 1997 IDRF Fellow Flagg Miller uses the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences to show how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform and for morally evaluating political liberalism. From the 1940s onward, a new class of political activists…
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632. Publications & Writing
The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere
Blogs have given occasion to a whole new set of conversations about religion in public life. They represent a tremendous opportunity for publication, discussion, cross-fertilization, and critique of a kind never seen before. In principle, at least, the Internet offers an opportun…
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633. Publications & Writing
"The New Networks of Knowledge: Think Tanks and the Transnationalization of Governance"
More often than not, studies of thinks tanks have addressed their role in society and politics at the nation-state level. This neglects an increasingly important component of think tank activity. These organizations are fast building regional and international networks. While thi…
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634. Publications & Writing
The North Caucasus: Histories, Diasporas and Current Challenges
The papers and abstracts in this volume were originally presented at a two-day conference, "Towards a New Generation of Scholarship on the Caucasus," held in Sukhum, Abkhazia, on October 30–31, 2007. The conference was coorganized by the SSRC, Circassianacademia (a scholarly li…
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635. Publications & Writing
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Regional Perspectives (online essays)
In the United States, news coverage of North Korea's nuclear program, as well as U.S. policy toward the North and reactions of U.S. allies and others in Northeast Asia, tend to reflect the Bush administration's interpretation of events. With six-party talks on the nuclear crisis…
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636. Publications & Writing
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Ur…
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637. Publications & Writing
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
…2001 IDRF Fellow Scott Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history — the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans — and assessing the future likelihood of such ev…
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638. Publications & Writing
The Perfectly Outrageous Storm
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639. Publications & Writing
"The Photographic Attack on His Royal Highness": The Prince of Wales, Wallis Simpson and the Prehistory of the Paparazzi
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Ryan Linkof. This essay analyzes the photographic news coverage of the relationship of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. The emergence of the photographic newspapers in the years after 1900 presented unique challenges for the royal…
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640. Publications & Writing
The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests
Examining a century of American experience, The Politics of Strategic Adjustment illustrates how the United States chooses its security policies. While scholars have typically focused on international pressures and opportunities, this book shows that decisions about grand strateg…
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