#  New Books 

 



## Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools 

### By Yamini Aiyar

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What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public systems in India? In answering this question, it is all too common to dismiss the voices of India’s army of frontline officers charged with running schools and health centres and delivering the vast array of public services to citizens. Weak state capacity is a well-recognized reality that has contributed to the persistent poor quality of public services (poor learning outcomes, broken health care, gaps in the provision of water, sanitation, law and order) in India. In public debates on the Indian state, the frontline is seen as the problem. This book pushes back on this dominant discourse by training an empathetic ear to the voices of the frontlines of the Indian State. It does so through a thick descriptive account of an ambitious effort to improve the quality of Government schools, specifically its ability to equip students with basic foundational literacy and numeracy, in the city-state of Delhi. It documents the trials and tribulations of teachers, heads of schools, bureaucrats, and reformers as they struggled to implement reforms. In doing so, it offers new insights into what it takes to build state capacity and embed reform ideas into the public system. In doing so, this book makes the case for reframing the debate on state capacity to focus on the centrality of organizational culture, professional identity, and aligning management practices with mission oriented purpose as the critical ingredients of building state capacity and entrenching a learning-oriented approach in the education system. [*(Read more at Oxford Academic)*](https://academic.oup.com/book/58819)

*Advisory Committee Member Yamini Aiyar is the president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research and is a visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.*

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## The Burning Earth: A History

### By Sunil Amrith

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In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railroads and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against stubborn nature. Amrith’s account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. So too does this book reveal the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm. [*(Read more at W. W. Norton)*](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007180)

*Former Faculty Associate Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University.*

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## Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship

### By Sophia Balakian

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Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, *Unsettled Families* investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families—more than 99 percent globally—as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent. But "fraud" as a category is not as self-evident as it may first appear. Nor is "the family." Based on long-term fieldwork between Nairobi, Kenya and Columbus, Ohio, Sophia Balakian tells stories of Somali and Congolese refugees navigating a complicated global assemblage of humanitarian organizations, immigration bureaucracies, and national security agencies as they seek permanent, new homes. Viewing the concepts of "fraud" and "family" from different vantage points in this context, Balakian shows how the categories begin to blur out of focus, sometimes to evaporate altogether; what seems to be contained within them scatter outside their received boundaries. Practices that resettlement organizations deem fraudulent are often understood by people living as refugees to be moral actions in an unequal world. Such practices allow them to fulfill obligations to kin—kin defined expansively, in ways that at times exceed the boundaries of normative, US frameworks. Bringing questions of kinship into current discussions on humanitarianism, Balakian locates "the family" as a crucial category in processes of producing, policing, and contesting the boundaries of nation-states in the twenty-first century. [*(Read more at Stanford University Press)*](https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/unsettled-families)

*Former Academy Scholar Sophia Balakian is an assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University.*

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## The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India

### By Mou Banerjee

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In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire’s Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small—Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India’s population during the nineteenth century—Bengal’s majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the permanent ejection of religious minorities from Indian ideals of nationhood.

Mou Banerjee details what happened as Hindus and Muslims grew increasingly suspicious of converts, missionaries, and evangelically minded British authorities. Fearing that converts would subvert resistance to British imperialism, Hindu and Muslim critics used their influence to define the new Christians as a threatening “other” outside the bounds of authentic Indian selfhood. The meaning of conversion was passionately debated in the burgeoning sphere of print media, and individual converts were accused of betrayal and ostracized by their neighbors. Yet, Banerjee argues, the effects of the panic extended far beyond the lives of those who suffered directly. As Christian converts were erased from the Indian political community, that community itself was reconfigured as one consecrated in faith. While India’s emerging nationalist narratives would have been impossible in the absence of secular Enlightenment thought, the evolution of cohesive communal identity was also deeply entwined with suspicion toward religious minorities. [*(Read more at Harvard University Press)*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674268036)

*Former Graduate Research Fellow Mou Banerjee is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.*

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## Shadows into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age

### By Theresa S. Betancourt

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During the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002, an estimated 20,000 children were forced to join the fighting. As villages were raided and youths rounded up, it was not uncommon for a child to be ordered to kill a friend, relative, or neighbor under threat of being killed themselves. The goal was to make it impossible for the captives to return home and be accepted back into their communities.

But when the conflict ended, many of the children did find their way home. Could they reintegrate after such extreme trauma? Theresa Betancourt and her collaborators in Sierra Leone launched a study of more than 500 boys and girls who had been pulled into the war, tracking them for over two decades. The results were surprising: despite everything they had suffered, this was not a lost generation. In fact, the most dominant trend over time was one of healing and increasing acceptance. The lives of the former child soldiers were shaped not just by their personal ordeals but also, crucially, by the responses of their families, peers, and broader communities. Filled with vivid personal stories, *Shadows into Light* describes heartbreak and despair but also remarkable triumphs made possible by layers of social support and encouragement. [*(Read more at Harvard University Press)*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674251052)

*Former Faculty Associate Theresa S. Betancourt is the Salem Professor in Global Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work.*

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## Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan

### By Amy Catalinac

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The governance of Japan presents a puzzle: it is a democracy yet is dominated by a single party that wins almost all elections. Stranger still, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its policies are not particularly popular with voters. How has this situation arisen, and how is it sustained? Amy Catalinac argues that when politicians compete in electoral districts with discernible voter groups, they can make allocations of central government resources contingent on how those groups vote. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data spanning 1980–2014, Catalinac shows that LDP politicians have been doing just that, leveraging their dominance to make groups compete for resources. *Dominance Through Division* sheds new light on why the LDP has remained in power for so long, why opposition parties are weak, and why policy preferences do not always align with vote choice. It also explains why Japan's 1994 electoral reform has had limited impact. [*(Read more at Cambridge University Press)*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dominance-through-division/0137AA666DFDE81E9B1A5188F7875C72#fndtn-information)

*Former Weatherhead affiliate Amy Catalinac is an associate professor of politics at New York University.*

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## The EU’s Approach to Conflict Analysis in Integrated Conflict Interventions

### By Kieran Doyle and Sean McGearty

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This book aims to critically examine the European Union’s peacebuilding approach, focusing on integrated conflict analysis, suggesting a new model for conflict analysis within the EU Common Security and Defence Policy. It explores recent interventions while also addressing the need for improved conflict sensitivity. It argues that greater self-reflexivity, and deeper reflection on motivations for intervention plays a critical role within multilateral efforts to address implementation gaps, encourage greater analytical capacity, suggest categories of partnership interaction with other actors and give centrality to the EU’s integrated approach, reorienting away from the growing emphasis on securitisation. It is aimed at policy makers and practitioners, asking questions of contemporary analysis frameworks which validate causal pathways and currently provide the basis of the international peace architecture. [*(Read more at Springer)*](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77802-5#overview)

*Former Fellow Kieran Doyle is an associate professor at the Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University.*

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## Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat

### By Jennifer L. Hochschild

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Race and class inequality are at the crux of many policy disputes in American cities. But are they the only factors driving political discord? In *Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat*, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild examines significant policies in four major American cities to determine when race and class shape city politics, when they do not, and what additional forces have the power to shape urban policy choices.

Hochschild investigates the root causes of disputes in the arenas of policing, development, schooling, and budgeting. She finds that race and class are central to the Stop-Question-Frisk policing policy in New York City and the development of Atlanta’s Beltline. New York’s Stop-Question-Frisk policy was intended to fight crime and keep all New Yorkers safe. In practice, however, young Black and Latino men in low-income neighborhoods were disproportionately stopped by a predominantly white police force. The goal of the Atlanta Beltline, a redevelopment project that includes public parks, new housing, commercial development, and a robust public transit system, is to expand access around the city and keep working-class residents in the city by constructing affordable housing. However, the construction completed thus far has also encouraged gentrification and displacement of, displaced poor, disproportionately Black residents, and has increased the wealth and power of both Black and white city elites. [*(Read more at Russell Sage Foundation)*](https://www.russellsage.org/publications/raceclass-conflict-and-urban-financial-threat)

*Faculty Associate Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is also a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.*

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## The Pacific's New Navies: An Ocean, its Wars, and the Making of US Sea Power

### By Thomas M. Jamison

   ![Book cover for The Pacific's New Navies: An Ocean, its Wars, and the Making of US Sea Power.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/book_jamison_alum_2025.jpg?itok=kZMDx0FU) 

 

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet—otherwise known as the 'New Navy'—was a result of the naval wars and arms races around the Pacific during the late-nineteenth century. Using a transnational methodology, Thomas Jamison spotlights how US Civil War-era innovations catalyzed naval development in the Pacific World, creating a sense that the US Navy was falling behind regional competitors. As the industrializing 'newly-made navies' of Chile, Peru, Japan, and China raced against each other, Pacific dynamism motivated investments in the US 'New Navy as a matter of security and civilizational prestige. In this provocative exploration into the making of modern US navalism, Jamison provides an analysis of competitive naval build-ups in the Pacific, of the interactions between peoples, ideas, and practices within it, and ultimately the emergence of the US as a major power. [*(Read more at Cambridge University Press)*](https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/american-history-1861-1900/pacifics-new-navies-ocean-its-wars-and-making-us-sea-power?format=PB)

*Former Graduate Student Associate Thomas M. Jamison is an assistant professor of strategic studies at the Naval Postgraduate School.*

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## Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation

### By Tyler Jost

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Why do states start conflicts they ultimately lose? Why do leaders possess inaccurate expectations of their prospects for victory? *Bureaucracies at War* examines how national security institutions shape the quality of bureaucratic information upon which leaders base their choice for conflict—which institutional designs provide the best counsel, why those institutions perform better, and why many leaders fail to adopt them. Jost argues that the same institutions that provide the best information also empower the bureaucracy to punish the leader. Thus, miscalculation on the road to war is often the tragic consequence of how leaders resolve the trade-off between good information and political security. Employing an original cross-national data set and detailed explorations of the origins and consequences of institutions inside China, India, Pakistan, and the United States, this book explores why bureaucracy helps to avoid disaster, how bureaucratic competition produces better information, and why institutional design is fundamentally political. [*(Read more at Cambridge University Press)*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bureaucracies-at-war/ACFCE1F8DA53552F5F7AC7F872CE2C2B#fndtn-information)

*Former Graduate Student Affiliate Tyler Jost is an assistant professor of political science and the Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies at Brown University.*

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## Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina

### By María de los Ángeles Picone

   ![Book cover for Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/book_picone_alum_2025.jpg?itok=VY00SIME) 

 

In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived as "desert," through a myriad of nationalizing policies, from military campaigns to hotels. But beyond the urban governing halls of Chile and Argentina, explorers, migrants, local authorities, bandits, and visitors also made sense of the nation by inhabiting the physical space of the northern Patagonian Andes. They surveyed passes, opened roads, claimed land titles or leases, traveled miles to the nearest police station, rode miles on horseback to escape the police, and hiked the landscape.

María de los Ángeles Picone tells the story of how people living, governing, and traveling through northern Patagonia sought to construct versions of Chile and Argentina based on their ideas about and experiences in geographical space in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By repositioning the analytical focus from Santiago and Buenos Aires to northern Patagonia, Picone reveals how a wide array of actors, with varying degrees of political, economic, and social power, assigned distinctive—and sometimes conflicting—meanings to space and national identity. [*(Read more at the University of North Carolina Press)*](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469686134/landscaping-patagonia/)

*Former Visiting Scholar María de los Ángeles Picone is an assistant professor of history at Boston College.*

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## Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

### By Kenneth Rogoff

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*Our Dollar, Your Problem* argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck. Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc. Americans cannot take for granted that the Pax Dollar era will last indefinitely, not only because many countries are deeply frustrated with the system, but also because overconfidence and arrogance can lead to unforced errors. Rogoff shows how America’s outsized power and exorbitant privilege can spur financial instability—not just abroad but also at home. [*(Read more at Yale University Press)*](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300283716/our-dollar-your-problem/)

*Faculty Associate Kenneth Rogoff is the Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University.*

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## Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters

### By Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel

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In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they confront head-on the extreme divides that remain in wealth, income, power, and status nationally and globally.

What can be done at a time of deep political instability and environmental crisis? Piketty and Sandel agree on much: more inclusive investment in health and education, higher progressive taxation, curbing the political power of the rich and the overreach of markets. But how far and how fast can we push? Should we prioritize material or social change? What are the prospects for any change at all with nationalist forces resurgent? How should the left relate to values like patriotism and local solidarity where they collide with the challenges of mass migration and global climate change? [*(Read more at Wiley)*](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Equality%3A+What+It+Means+and+Why+It+Matters-p-9781509565504)

*Faculty Associate Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University.*

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## Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

### By Quinn Slobodian

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Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.

To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.

Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud. [*(Read more at Princeton University Press)*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917/hayeks-bastards?srsltid=AfmBOor88Yf5s36PCMXXTPmEMj1UUq1Hb7vZJIQY10Q7f7ikM3WIQe4t)

*Former Fellow Quinn Slobodian is an professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.*

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##  2025 International Book Blitz 

Several authors noted here participated in our annual International Book Blitz this May 2025. Check out the video for eight-minute speed talks about their books!

 

 





 

 

 



 

 

 

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