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THE POLITICS OF COERCION: State and Regime Making in Cambodia | By Neil Loughlin

Soksamphoas Im

DAYS OF OPPORTUNITY: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion | By Robert B. Rakove

C. Christine Fair

INSIDE AFGHANISTAN: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption | By Timor Sharan

Shanthie Mariet D’Souza

LIFE BEYOND WASTE: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan | By Waqas H. Butt

Ayaz Qureshi

SEMIOTICS OF RAPE: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India | By Rupal Oza

Simanti Dasgupta

INSURGENCY IN INDIA’S NORTHEAST: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance | By Jugdep S. Chima and Pahi Saikia

Kunal Nath Shahdeo

THE POLITICAL OUTSIDER: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism | By Srirupa Roy

Shashank Chaturvedi

INDIA IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: Understanding India’s Security Orientation towards Southeast and East Asia | By Aditi Malhotra

Shailza Singh

NORTH KOREA’S MUNDANE REVOLUTION: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965 | By Andre Schmid

Avram Agov

SOUTH KOREA AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: Policy Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman | By Choong Yong Ahn

Ji Hye Lim