Coming Back Into the Season

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Chaos: Afghanistan’s Economy Under Taliban Rule

Arjun Raman, King’s College London Jennifer Wen, Cherry Creek High School Introduction: What happens when you take a country already suffering from a lack of industrialization, famine, droughts, and various other economic crises and then introduce a government that bans women from working, restricts NGOs from operating, and faces sanctions by the states that once […]

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Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

Constraining Dictatorship is a masterfully executed book that weaves in empirical analysis made to explain how executive constraints on autocratic leaders emerge, and the effects of institutionalization on a regime.

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Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

Jack Snyder, an American political scientist and the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University, offers a bold perspective on systems based on human rights and demonstrates the stability of human rights depends on central power.