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    World politics

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      Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present

      Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present

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      Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns In The Transitions Of The Late Modern World

      Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns In The Transitions Of The Late Modern World

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      Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

      Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

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      Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

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      Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World

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      Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

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      Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

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      Syria: Hotspots in Global Politics (2nd ed.)

      Syria: Hotspots in Global Politics (2nd ed.)

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      Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World

      Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World

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      The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010

      The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010

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      From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

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      Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe

      Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe

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      Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

      Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

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      The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

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      The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

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      Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

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      Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

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      The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel

      The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel

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      Civil War in Syria: Mobilization and Competing Social Orders

      Civil War in Syria: Mobilization and Competing Social Orders

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    • The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers

      The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers

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      The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers

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      Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control

      Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control

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      Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History

      Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History

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      Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

      Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

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      Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

      Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

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      Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World

      Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World

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      The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism

      The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism

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      Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran

      Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran

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      Inside the Brotherhood

      Inside the Brotherhood

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      Fragile Nation Shattered Land

      Fragile Nation Shattered Land

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      Syria: Hotspots in Global Politics (2nd ed.)

      Syria: Hotspots in Global Politics (2nd ed.)

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      Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran

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      State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein

      State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein

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      Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mubarak

      Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mubarak

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      Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide

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      Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide

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      Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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      A History of Islamic Societies

      A History of Islamic Societies

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      Islam: The Straight Path

      Islam: The Straight Path

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      History of the Arab Peoples

      History of the Arab Peoples

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      The Seljuks

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      The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic

      The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic

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      Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets

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      Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets

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      From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

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      Why Gender Matters in Economics by Mukesh Eswaran

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      Why Gender Matters in Economics by Mukesh Eswaran

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      Revolutionary Economies: What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism

      Revolutionary Economies: What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism

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      Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room

      Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room

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      Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance

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      Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

      Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

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      A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors And the Occupation of Iraq

      A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors And the Occupation of Iraq

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      Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

      Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

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      Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

      Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

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      Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World

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      Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

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