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... book review Adam Tooze Crashed: Decade Financial Crises Changed World capitalism globalization financial crisis trade European Union Eurozone United States China Russia Ukraine The publication of Adam Tooze s passionate, readable, and lively analysis of the global fi-nancial...

...Nancy Ries A definitive history of organized crime in Russia shows how political leaders have long used gangsters to serve the state's purposes. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California book review Nancy Ries Mark Galeotti...

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...Maria Todorova Two books offer different takes on everyday life in Bulgaria since 1989, one a lament for the loss of social solidarity, the other a lyrical portrait of a wild frontier region. Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism , by Kristen Ghodsee Duke University Press...

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...Kimberly J. Morgan A new book lays blame for the weak social safety net on political rhetoric that justifies government aid as an individual right and not a public good–a tradition that dates back to the New Deal. The Transformation of American Liberalism , by George Klosko . Oxford...

... by ideologies that encourage ethnic groups to view each other as a threat. His framing of the book as a biography pushes the reader to see the borderland and its people as sharing a life story over decades, even as political systems change. This allows the reader to move from the realm of politicians...

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...-African beat, fills that job description perfectly. His book, The Mayor of Mogadishu, is as good a glimpse into Somalia s complex realities as you will find. Harding s principal object of interest is a color- ful political figure, Mohamed Tarzan Nur, who returned to Mogadishu from London to serve...