Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
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Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…
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Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud (2015) is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well…
Race Becomes Tomorrow, Gerald Sider’s exploration of racial formations across time and space, probes the nature of history, time, and…
Boris Petric’s short and accessible book identifies local and global dynamics that have shaped the Kyrgyz Republic since its independence…