Perspectives on Politics: Volume 21 - Special Section: Las Américas

New and Renewed Approaches to Understanding Chinese Politics
Yan Sun
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24 March 2023, pp. 302-304
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A consensus has emerged among America’s policy circles and China specialists that the US policy of engagement to promote the democratization of China has not been successful. Debates abound as to why and what went wrong, as can be seen in the pages of leading foreign policy journals and a plethora of books on a rising China’s challenge to American primacy. Typical is the assessment that western democracies have underestimated “the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party” (Aaron Friedberg, Getting China Wrong, 2022).

We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter. By Terrence L. Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 312p. $120.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
Deva Woodly
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Response to Deva Woodly’s Review of We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Terrence L. Johnson
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Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements. By Deva R. Woodly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
Terrence L. Johnson
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Response to Terrence L. Johnson’s Review of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Deva Woodly
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24 March 2023, pp. 309-310
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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan. By Hanan Toukan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 336p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
Jillian Schwedler
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24 March 2023, pp. 311-313
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Response to Jillian Schwedler’s Review of The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
Hanan Toukan
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24 March 2023, p. 313
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Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. By Jillian Schwedler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 392p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
Hanan Toukan
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24 March 2023, pp. 313-315
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Response to Hanan Toukan’s Review of Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Jillian Schwedler
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24 March 2023, pp. 315-316
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What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America. By Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 362p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
Joshua N. Zingher
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24 March 2023, pp. 317-318
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Response to Joshua N. Zingher’s Review of What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America
Nicholas F. Jacobs, Sidney M. Milkis
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24 March 2023, pp. 318-319
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Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior. Joshua N. Zingher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 256p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
Nicholas F. Jacobs, Sidney M. Milkis
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24 March 2023, pp. 319-321
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Response to Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis’s Review of Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior
Joshua N. Zingher
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24 March 2023, p. 321
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International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches. By J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 232p. $81.00 cloth.
Richard Ned Lebow
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24 March 2023, pp. 322-323
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Response to Richard Ned Lebow’s Review of International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches
J. Samuel Barkin
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24 March 2023, p. 324
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The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know? By Richard Ned Lebow. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.
J. Samuel Barkin
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24 March 2023, pp. 324-326
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Response to J. Samuel Barkin’s Review of The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know?
Richard Ned Lebow
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24 March 2023, pp. 326-327
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The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups. By LaGina Gause. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 275p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.
Hahrie Han
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24 March 2023, pp. 328-329
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Response to Hahrie Han’s Review of The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups
LaGina Gause
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24 March 2023, pp. 329-330
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Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First Century America. By Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 216p. $95.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.
LaGina Gause
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24 March 2023, pp. 330-332
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We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter. By Terrence L. Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 312p. $120.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

Response to Deva Woodly’s Review of We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter

Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements. By Deva R. Woodly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Response to Terrence L. Johnson’s Review of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan. By Hanan Toukan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 336p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

Response to Jillian Schwedler’s Review of The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan

Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. By Jillian Schwedler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 392p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

Response to Hanan Toukan’s Review of Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent

What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America. By Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 362p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Response to Joshua N. Zingher’s Review of What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America

Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior. Joshua N. Zingher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 256p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Response to Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis’s Review of Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior

International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches. By J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 232p. $81.00 cloth.

Response to Richard Ned Lebow’s Review of International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches

The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know? By Richard Ned Lebow. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Response to J. Samuel Barkin’s Review of The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know?

The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups. By LaGina Gause. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 275p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.

Response to Hahrie Han’s Review of The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups

Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First Century America. By Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 216p. $95.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.

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