This article reviews key theoretical and methodological contributions that anthropologists
have made to the study of what we call security regimes. While anthropologists have been …

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to
produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition …

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the
Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter …

The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where
tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction …

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast
maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil …

Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest
reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil …

Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet
Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory between Uzbekistan and …

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe's political landscape is
shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to …

Two home-grown insurgencies arose in Nigeria after the return to civilian rule in 1999: Boko
Haram in the Muslim northeast, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta …

This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are
generally gathered under the umbrella term of 'Gypsies', their multidimensional identities …