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History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus	Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks	The Year of Africa
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy	Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?	The American Dream after COVID-19
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis	Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America	Right-Wing Politics in India
Hong Kong in Protest	South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid	A History of Stolen Citizenship
American Presidential Scandals	Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism	Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments	Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now	Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus	Media and Politics in the Age of Trump	Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary	All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram	Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace	From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis	Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.
An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History	Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt	The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History
A Fresh Start for Pakistan?	People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents	America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System	Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill
Socialism Takes Over France, Again?	From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics	Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent	Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later	American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy	From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?	The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe	Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics	Pirates of Puntland, Somalia
Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future	Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)	Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present
Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?	After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections	The Second Amendment Goes to Court
Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America	A History of Athens Beyond Decline	Recovering the History of the French Far-Right
Emancipation by What Means?	Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution	Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip	Medieval Public Relations Battles	The Theological Third Way in Latin America
Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America	Reframing the American Empire	When the Soviets Domesticated the West

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