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  • Books Received

Advanced Democracies

The Democratic Faith: Essays on Democratic Citizenship. By Paul M. Sniderman. Yale University Press, 2017. 185 pp.
Supreme Democracy: The End of Elitism in Supreme Court Nominations. By Richard Davis. Oxford University Press, 2017. 275 pp.

Africa

Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda. By Timothy Longman. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 374 pp.

Asia

China’s Eurasian Century? Political and Strategic Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative. By Nadège Rolland. National Bureau of Asian Research, 2017. 195 pp. [End Page 174]
China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation. By Bradley M. Gardner. Independent Institute, 2017. 219 pp.
Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism. By Maria Repnikova. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 271 pp.
Rethinking Public Institutions in Asia. Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav. Oxford University Press, 2017. 527 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe. By Michael E. O’Hanlon. Brookings Institution Press, 2017. 155 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America. Edited by Steven Levitsky et al. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 550 pp.
The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America. By Jennifer Cyr. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 269 pp.

Middle East and North Africa

Democracy in Iran: Why it Failed and How it Might Succeed. By Misagh Parsa. Harvard University Press, 2016. 406 pp.
Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam. By Lahouari Addi, translated by Anthony Roberts. Georgetown University Press, 2017. 275 pp.
Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly. By Safwan M. Masri. Columbia University Press, 2017. 378 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

After Europe. By Ivan Krastev. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 120 pp.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. By James C. Scott. Yale University Press, 2017. 312 pp.
Competing Memories: Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru. By Rebekka Friedman. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 2015 pp.
The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism. By Michael Lusztig. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. 279 pp.
Democracy in Crisis: Why, Where, How to Respond. By Roland Rich. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 231 pp.
Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation. By Aila M. Matanock. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 323 pp. [End Page 175]
The Facilitation of Civic Engagement Through Community Art. By Leigh Nanney Hersey and Bryna Bobick. IGI Global, 2017. 671 pp.
In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy. Edited by Anya Schiffrin. The Center for International Media Assistance, 2017. 162 pp.
Is Non-Western Democracy Possible? A Russian Perspective. Edited by Alexei D. Voskressenski. World Scientific, 2017. 738 pp.
The Koran in English: A Biography. By Bruce B. Lawrence. Princeton University Press, 2017. 247 pp.
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World. By Michael Ignatieff. Harvard University Press, 2017. 263 pp.
The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism, and the Financial Crisis. By John L. Campbell and John A. Hall. Princeton University Press, 2017. 190 pp.
The Retreat of Western Liberalism. By Edward Luce. Little, Brown, 2017. 234 pp.
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics. By David Goodhart. Hurst, 2017. 278 pp.
Seeing Things Politically: Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini. By Pierre Manent, translated by Ralph C. Hancock. St. Augustine’s Press, 2015. 215 pp.
When Democracies Choose War: Politics, Public Opinion, and the Marketplace of Ideas. By Andrew Z. Katz. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 253 pp. [End Page 176]
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