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Beijing’s Dangerous Game in Tibet

Tenzin Dorjee, Gyal Lo
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China

Elizabeth Economy
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The Heritage State: Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar

Lisa Anderson
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A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979–1989

Maria Lipman
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Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle With China for My Land and My People

Elizabeth Economy
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Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism

Lisa Anderson
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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Jessica T. Mathews
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The Pope’s Foreign Policy

Victor Gaetan
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Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis

Lawrence D. Freedman
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From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics

Lisa Anderson
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Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan

Lisa Anderson
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How Latin America Can Survive an Age of Turmoil

What Iran Wants

Christopher de Bellaigue
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Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon

Lisa Anderson
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Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan

Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Lisa Anderson
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Will Iran’s Next Supreme Leader Be Its Last?

Akbar Ganji
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Syria’s Post-Authoritarian Trap

Fawaz A. Gerges
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Hamas: The Quest for Power

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Putin Chose Ukraine Over Syria

Alexander Baunov
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The View From Israel One Year After October 7

Ari Shavit

Can India Change Course?

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire 

Maria Lipman
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Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism

Andrew Moravcsik
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What the Lebanese People Really Think of Hezbollah

MaryClare Roche, Michael Robbins
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Secular Stagnation

Shadi Hamid
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The Death of an Iranian Hard-Liner

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
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Gaza and the Breakdown of International Law

Oona A. Hathaway

Illiberal America: A History

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Can Israel and Iran Step Back From the Brink?

India as It Is

Alyssa Ayres, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashley J. Tellis

Netanyahu’s Israel

Aluf Benn

India’s Feet of Clay

Ramachandra Guha
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Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic

Nicolas van de Walle
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The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought

Rana Mitter
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How Gaza Reunited the Middle East

Toby Matthiesen
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The Mystery of India’s Assassination Plots

Hartosh Singh Bal
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The Battle for the Soul of the Dalai Lama

Lobsang Sangay
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul

Lisa Anderson
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A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

Lisa Anderson
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Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide

Nicolas van de Walle
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An Expelled Journalist Returns to China

American Hatred Goes Global

Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware
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Putin’s Useful Priests

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The Last Minarets of Yunnan

Haiyun Ma, I-wei Jennifer Chang
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Lisa Anderson
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Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq

Lisa Anderson
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Nigeria Is Boiling

Ebenezer Obadare
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Small Countries, Big War

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Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda

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Vali Nasr
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Netanyahu Unbound

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Sharia, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics

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Lisa Anderson
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Jessica T. Mathews
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Sean R. Roberts
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Arundhati Katju
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Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History

Lisa Anderson
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Anti-Christian Violence in India

Andrew J. Nathan
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Nithin Coca
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The Corrupt Political Class That Broke Lebanon

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The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State

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