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AI Was Supposed to Perfect Authoritarian Control. Repression Is Getting in the Way. (opens the original)
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The Imperial Snatch of Venezuela’s Oil (opens the original)
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The Quiet War on the American West (opens the original)
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How China's Land-Backed Growth Model Fueled an Economic Miracle – and Could Now Bring a Crash (opens the original)
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This post is an interview with Susan Whiting, Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, who works at the intersection of law, property rights, and political economy in China. She is the author of an important new book, “Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China,” that draws on an original household survey of rural Chinese residents and deep fieldwork in rural China to investigate a question that is at the heart of China’s extraordinary e
The Land War at the Heart of the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (opens the original)
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This post is an interview with Paul Kohlbry, an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of the most original voices working at the intersection of politics, property law, and agrarian transformation. He is the author of Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2026), which draws on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the central hig
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