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How China Wins

Beijing’s Advantages in a Revisionist Order

 By Julian Gewirtz

 

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Two Books on the Modern Nation-State

Two new books offer critiques of the modern nation-state and the Westphalian international order, each making the case for new forms of supranational cooperation to cope with escalating planetary-scale dangers.

Reviewed by G. John Ikenberry

 
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The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran

Nikpour maps the political and intellectual history of Iran by tracing its approach toward policing and incarceration since the nineteenth century.

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

 

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Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

 

This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded liberalism such global prominence.

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Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded liberalism such global prominence.

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Europe Without Borders: A History

Stanley-Becker’s meticulously researched and engagingly written history of the Schengen Agreement—the best available—reveals the secrets of its success.

Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik

 

The Invisible Spy: Churchill’s Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II

Maier’s lively account of anti-Nazi espionage features many notable characters, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the future head of the CIA Allen Dulles, and the writer Ian Fleming.

Reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman

 

Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India’s Miracle State