Cover Art: ALEPPO, SYRIA: December 23, 2013. In the Bab al-Nirab neighborhood of the city of Aleppo, a Woman is rescued from the rubble of her home after it was bombed by regime forces. As described by a Syrian American student who helped choose this photo: “She's not dead, but she looks terrifi ed to death – almost petrifi ed. Her back is to the destruction. She's made it in the sense that she's still breathing… The picture captures that moment suspended in time when everything and nothing are moving at once; when there is deafeningly loud noise and deafening silence. You know relief efforts are continuing in the background, but you can't take your eyes off of her.” (Photo by Jalal Almamo)
Book Reviews: Comparative Politics
The Political Development of Modern Thailand. By Federico Ferrara. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 346p. $99.00.
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Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes. By Vladimir Gel’man, Otar Marganiya, and Dmitry Travin. New York: Lexington Books, 2014. 192p. $80.00. - Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes. By Vladimir Gel’man. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. 224p. $25.95 paper.
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Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic, and Religious Change. Edited by Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer, and Stéphane Lacroix. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 360p. $85.00 cloth. $32.99 paper.
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Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War through Institutional Design. Edited by Alan J. Kuperman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 304p. $65.00
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Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America. By Daniel Levine. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. 321p. $28.50.
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Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory, and Citizenship. Edited by S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013. 312p. $110.00 cloth, $32.95 paper.
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Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective. By Thomas F. Remington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 188p. $110.00.
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Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era. By Stephen J. Silvia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 296p. $82.50 cloth, $29.95 paper.
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Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China. By Daniela Stockmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 358p. $104.99 cloth, $31.99 paper. - Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model. By Jessica C. Teets. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 252p. $85.00.
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Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement: Organisation, Communication, and Ideology. Edited by Filippo Tronconi. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2015. 254p. $107.96.
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Comparative Welfare State Politics: Development, Opportunities, and Reform. By Kees Van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 256p. $89.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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Book Reviews: International Relations
Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law and Policy. Edited by Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 496p. $95.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention. By Carrie Booth Walling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 320p. $75.00.
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Foreign Policy Analysis: Beyond North America. Edited by Klaus Brummer and Valerie M. Hudson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2015. 242p. $65.00.
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Politics in the Corridor of Dying: AIDS Activism and Global Health Governance. By Jennifer Chan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 344p. $39.95.
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Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century: The Dynamics of Recognition. By Bridget Coggins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 280p. $110.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.
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The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect. By Michael W. Doyle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 288p. $40.00.
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Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy. By Sophal Ear. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 208p. $60.00.
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Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body, and Emotion in International Relations. By K. M. Fierke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 302p. $104.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism. By Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 276p. $90.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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