The Roots of the Islamic Republic’s Conflict With the West; How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny;  How Trump Retook the White House
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Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran, January 2025

What Iran Wants

The Roots of the Islamic Republic’s Conflict With the West

 By Christopher de Bellaigue

 

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Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny

In a provocative and important study, Lind challenges the familiar notion that authoritarianism hampers innovation.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Economy

 
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2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

Three veteran political reporters from competing newspapers pooled their experience to produce a definitive account of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign.

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

 

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The American Way of Foreign Policy by Michael Mandelbaum

 

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Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva

This powerful book persuasively argues that Hindutva is a fascist ideology.

Reviewed by Pratap Bhanu Mehta

 

Excessive Loyalism in Putin’s Authoritarian Regime: The Costs of Sycophancy

Libman sheds light on a vulnerability of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocracy that has rarely been studied systematically.

Reviewed by Maria Lipman