# Politics and Rights Review > Bridging Academia and Society ## Posts - [Putin's Ainu Recognition: Is Hokkaido Russia's Next Target?](https://politicsrights.com/putins-ainu-recognition-hokkaido-russia/): Just as Japan and China have both acknowledged the importance of engagement with the Arctic’s indigenous peoples in their respective 2015 and 2018 Arctic policies... - [Hokkaido and the Foundations of Japan’s Arctic Influence](https://politicsrights.com/hokkaido-foundations-japans-arctic-role/): Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, with their long-contested but fortuitously situated geography, remain critical to the future stability of the Arctic. - [The Rise, Fall and Re-emergence of Japan as an Arctic Power](https://politicsrights.com/japan-as-an-arctic-power/): Japan was, for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a North Pacific great power in command of Northeast Asia’s near-Arctic seas and insular territories... - [Christian Globalism: Bridging Distant Ties](https://politicsrights.com/christian-globalism-bridging-distant-ties/): Can one forge real relationships with faraway people and places? Is it possible to experience aspects of a global reality that exceeds an individual’s capacity for knowing? - [Introducing Civil Society to China](https://politicsrights.com/introducing-civil-society-to-china/): In the 1980s and 1990s wave of democratization, democracy movements corroborated the role of civil society in democratic transitions. It galvanized civil society promotion from North America and Europe to the global South. - [Is Harvard’s Judge Truly Impartial?](https://politicsrights.com/is-harvards-judge-truly-impartial/): In a courtroom where generations of Harvard visibly and invisibly converge, reasonable minds can wonder whether true justice can ever prevail. - [Secular Sensibilities amidst French and Québécois Politics](https://politicsrights.com/secular-sensibilities-french-quebecois-politics/): In recent years, political leaders in the North Atlantic world have stressed the importance of buttressing “secularism,” often framed as a separation of undesirable religion... - [Harvard Admissions, Privilege, and the Trump Challenge](https://politicsrights.com/harvard-admissions-privilege-trump-challenge/): Structures of access matter as much as structures of excellence. Harvard has long excelled at the latter; the time has come to address the former... - [5 Must-Read Books on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics  ](https://politicsrights.com/5-books-artificial-intelligence-ethics/): What once seemed like neutral innovation has become a transformative force in finance, culture, and law. Yet the moral frameworks... - [The Geopolitics of the Stock Market](https://politicsrights.com/geopolitics-stock-market/): The stock market is often presented as a neutral mechanism where prices reflect the balance between supply and demand. Yet markets are not insulated from politics. - [Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism](https://politicsrights.com/assata-shakur-violence-cubas-racism/): Efforts to whitewash Shakur's image, underway for decades, have intensified in the aftermath of her death in cultural, activist, and political spaces. - [Beyond Subzero: A Future of Cheap, Quiet Polar Submarines](https://politicsrights.com/cheap-quiet-polar-submarines/): News headlines flashed red and bated Beltway breaths were anxiously held as China deployed its (dubiously) menacing armada of five icebreakers... - [Microhistories and the African Past](https://politicsrights.com/microhistories-and-the-african-past/): The understanding of the African past has been revolutionised in the six decades since African nations’ wave of independence in the 1960s... - [In Tumult, Understanding Soft Power](https://politicsrights.com/in-tumult-understanding-soft-power/): Soft power is a country’s ability to persuade, rather than coerce, other countries to adopt its point of view.  It rests on the relationships that people in that country have with people in the rest of the world.  - [Understanding Social Structures: Relationships, Representations, and Rules](https://politicsrights.com/social-structures-representations/): How often have you found yourself attributing something to “social structure,” or heard others doing so?  - [Indigenous Power and the Future of Greenland](https://politicsrights.com/indigenous-power-and-the-future-of-greenland/): Trump’s plan to extend American sovereignty to Greenland is presented in classical geopolitical terms, framed in Mackinderian lens with Greenland perceived as a contested Rimland whose possession and/or control is essential to the security of the Heartland of mainland North America. - [Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombing and the Christian Crossroads](https://politicsrights.com/nagasaki-atomic-bombing-christian-crossroads/): Eighty years ago, on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb of World War II fell on Nagasaki. While overshadowed by the more publicized Hiroshima mission, the Nagasaki strike... - [Against Innovation](https://politicsrights.com/against-innovation/): Last summer I visited The Tech Interactive, an innovation-focused technology museum for children in the heart of Silicon Valley. The museum—formerly called “The Tech Museum of Innovation”—provides an uncritical celebration of technological innovation... - [Harvard's Internal Decay: Class, Culture, and Privilege](https://politicsrights.com/harvards-decay-class-culture-privilege/): Harvard has long offered a broad range of academic programs designed to support students with diverse educational backgrounds. - [Sacred Violence: Military AI in the Israel-Palestine Conflict](https://politicsrights.com/sacred-violence-military-ai-israel-palestine/): AI's role in the Israel-Palestine conflict blurs ethical lines, challenging the principles of international humanitarian law. - [Hope in Hate Crime Laws? Lessons from India](https://politicsrights.com/hope-in-hate-crime-laws-lessons-from-india/): It seems that we don’t currently exist in a time of hope. Perhaps more specifically, we don’t seem to be living in a world which inspires much faith in the ability of legal systems to deliver justice... - [Trump Battles Harvard Over Elitism and Public Subsidies](https://politicsrights.com/trump-harvard-elitism-public-subsidies/): Trump challenges Harvard’s privileges, subsidies, and foreign student policies in a broader fight over merit, access, and public accountability... - [What are conditions of violence ?](https://politicsrights.com/what-are-conditions-of-violence/): This article describes the concept of conditions of violence that I have recently introduced in a book under the same title... - [Understanding the Causes of War: Human Nature and History](https://politicsrights.com/causes-of-war-human-nature-and-history/): The question “Why War?” is of fundamental importance in understanding the human past and the human future. - [Trump’s Arctic Gambit: The Battle for Greenland](https://politicsrights.com/trumps-arctic-gambit-the-battle-for-greenland/): Remote and long-isolated Greenland has taken center stage in global diplomacy with America’s renewed ambition for an Arctic territorial expansion assertively reiterated since the re-election of Donald J. Trump as President in January 2025. - [What Racism Really Costs Us All](https://politicsrights.com/what-racism-really-costs-us-all/): Winner of the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award. - [Can Robots Love? Ethics at the Boundaries of the Human](https://politicsrights.com/can-robots-love-ethics-human/): Uncanny things have been happening in the borderlands between humans and non-humans. In August 2021 the Washington Post reported on the growing popularity of extraordinarily sophisticated computer dating apps and chatbots among... - [The Religious Turn in Great Power Politics](https://politicsrights.com/the-religious-turn-in-great-power-politics/): Religion has returned to the global stage—not just as a source of identity or mobilization, but increasingly as a tool of statecraft... - [Is the US Using Beijing’s Authoritarian Playbook?](https://politicsrights.com/is-the-us-using-beijings-authoritarian-playbook/): The world has watched in horror as US President Donald Trump sets about adopting an authoritarian playbook. To understand popular concern, it is important to see that sort of playbook in practice. - [How Obsession with China Warps U.S. Arctic Policy](https://politicsrights.com/how-obsession-china-warps-us-arctic-policy/): The United States Department of Defense (DoD)’s 2024 Arctic strategy confirms that an unhealthy obsession with China has now clouded Washington’s judgment... - [Climate-Friendly Food Choices: The Blue Plate](https://politicsrights.com/climate-friendly-food-choices-the-blue-plate/): Winner of the 2025 IBPA Gold Award. - [How Democracy, Media and Gender Equality Shape Abortion Views](https://politicsrights.com/how-democracy-media-gender-equality-abortion/): Abortion remains one of the most contentious global social issues, with attitudes varying dramatically across nations. While individual characteristics like education, income, and personal religious beliefs certainly matter... - [Black Women and the Making of Human Rights](https://politicsrights.com/black-women-and-the-making-of-human-rights/): Although I had been dabbling with the idea for quite some time, I started writing a book on Black women and human rights five years ago. At the time, I was a racial justice fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy... - [Understanding the Anti-Deportation Protests in Los Angeles](https://politicsrights.com/anti-deportation-protests-in-los-angeles/): The protests that took place in Los Angeles in June were a direct response to the large-scale ICE raids happening across California, including one on a business in the fashion district in downtown... - [Why Illiberalism Explains Changes in Today’s Social Order](https://politicsrights.com/why-illiberalism-explains-changes-social-order/): Scholarship on populism has dominated the last two decades but is now retreating in the face of a new concept that seems better equipped to capture the current transformations in our society: that of illiberalism. - [Human Rights Discourse: Language, Translation and Genre](https://politicsrights.com/human-rights-language-translation-genre/): Supranational human rights courts represent the apex of global legal accountability. Their judgments shape national policies... - [Making Americans Bankrupt Again?](https://politicsrights.com/making-americans-bankrupt-again/): Household financial insecurity long preceded the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump; indeed, it probably helped Trump win the election. But each and every day, the Trump administration takes actions that compound uncertainty for families, businesses, non-profits, and local governments... - [Project 2025: Authoritarian Agenda Disguised as Reform](https://politicsrights.com/project-2025-authoritarian-agenda-reform/): Project 2025 is a comprehensive initiative by The Heritage Foundation and over 70 conservative organizations to restructure the U.S. federal government. It aims to centralize executive authority, eliminate bureaucratic autonomy, and embed ideological conformity across federal institutions. Through the revival of policies such as “Schedule F,” it seeks to purge the civil service of nonpartisan professionals and replace them with loyalists aligned with a narrow ideological agenda. - [The Rise of Illiberalism: A Threat to Liberal Democracy](https://politicsrights.com/illiberalism-threat-to-liberal-democracy/): Illiberalism is defined by both its opposition to and dependence on liberalism—understood as an ideology and as a democratic system... - [A Comprehensive Search for a Fair Immigration Policy](https://politicsrights.com/comprehensive-search-fair-immigration-policy/): Book authors often think about timing. Will a book feel out-of-date as soon as it’s published? Or will publication come too soon, when events are so embryonic that they defy commentary? - [Dual Justice: Crime, Class, and Corporate Accountability](https://politicsrights.com/justice-crime-class-corporate-accountability/): In March 2025, President Donald Trump marched into the Justice Department and declared an end to the “Department of Injustice.” He vowed to restore “law and order” by cracking down... - [Land Remains the World’s Engine of Social Change](https://politicsrights.com/land-remains-the-worlds-engine-of-social-change/): As land has become scarcer and more valuable over the last few hundred years with population growth, who owns the land has determined who holds power... - [The Multiple Political Orders in New York City](https://politicsrights.com/multiple-political-orders-in-new-york-city/): As the aftershocks of the 2024 presidential election in the United States reverberate across the globe, a chastened Democratic Party is grappling with how best to counter Donald Trump’s profound assault on the basic precepts of the American constitutional order... - [Politics of Love](https://politicsrights.com/politics-of-love/): What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? This book argues that the discourse of love (ai 愛) marks China’s political modernity as it is introduced, adapted, and engineered as a key element in the building and rebuilding of a modern nation... - [We Were Never Meant to Obey: Weaving Abolitionist Constellations](https://politicsrights.com/obey-abolitionist-constellations/): I invite you to come along with me, tapping into an open heart and sense of curiosity. Because then, you never know where we could go... - [Suicide by False Belief](https://politicsrights.com/suicide-by-false-belief/): As a psychiatrist, I’ve spent my career working with patients who have delusions—that is, false beliefs held with unassailable conviction like believing that one is the Second Coming of Christ or that the FBI has implanted a tracking device in one’s brain. Such beliefs can... - [Cuba’s Kleptocracy: How It Operates and Why It Matters](https://politicsrights.com/cuba-kleptocracy-why-it-matters/): A kleptocracy is defined as “a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country’s resources.” It is organized corruption on a grand scale, by political leaders for their personal enrichment. The Castro regime has not only stolen Cuba’s resources, but those of other countries, and inserted itself into transnational criminal networks to both enrich itself, and pursue ideological objectives to export its governing model. The dictatorship in Havana, by that definition, is a kleptocracy, but it is more.  “In many respects, Cuba can beaccurately characterized as a violent criminal organization masquerading as a government. […] - [How Neoliberalism Reshaped Democracy After 1989](https://politicsrights.com/how-neoliberalism-reshaped-democracy-after-1989/): The latest Democracy Index 2024 snapshot of the state of democracy in 165 independent states showed that democracy is not working for large numbers of citizens around the world... - [Voice and Protest in Times of Democratic Decline](https://politicsrights.com/voice-protest-democratic-decline/): Democracy is facing an acute crisis today. Authoritarianism is on the rise all over the world, societies are more polarized and fragmented, and civil liberties... - [Why Are Governments Short-Sighted?](https://politicsrights.com/why-are-governments-short-sighted/): In the 1930s and ʼ40s, then president Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his fireside chats, a series of radio addresses on the Great Depression and World War II that were instrumental in quelling... - [How State Sovereignty Fuels Language Loss: Lessons from Tibet](https://politicsrights.com/state-sovereignty-fuels-language-loss-tibet/): Living in times of multiple high-speed crises, it’s easy to overlook slow-moving trends that play out over centuries instead of days... - [Persecution and Genocide: A Long History](https://politicsrights.com/persecution-and-genocide-a-long-history/): In 2002, Samantha Power, later US ambassador to the United Nations, 2013-2017, declared that we were living in an “age of genocide.”  Surveying the horrors of the preceding decade... - [What Gets Absorbed? Jews, Race, and Identity Across the Americas](https://politicsrights.com/absorbed-jews-race-identity-across-americas/): For over five centuries, Jewish presence in the Americas has come into contact with Black and Indigenous presences in these same spaces. From Canada to Argentina... - [Is Law Still Written in Stone? Rethinking Legal Semiotics](https://politicsrights.com/law-interpretation-legal-semiotics/): When people think of law, they often imagine codified rules, courtrooms, and justice in black and white. Yet beneath these appearances lies a shifting terrain... - [Commercial Art and the Urban Spectacle of Modern Japan](https://politicsrights.com/commercial-art-urban-spectacle-modern-japan/): Imagine strolling down one of the main boulevards in Tokyo’s fashionable Ginza district. It is the early Showa period, around 1930... - [When Too Much Freedom Leads to Tyranny](https://politicsrights.com/when-too-much-freedom-leads-to-tyranny/): My central contention is that the conventional understanding of ‘liberty’ – comprising both freedom and responsibility – is today collapsing under the weight of claims of ‘freedom’ alone. - [Are Ukrainian Refugees Still Welcome in America?](https://politicsrights.com/are-ukrainian-refugees-still-welcome-in-america/): The Trump Administration has taken aim at a variety of programs previously designed to facilitate the movement of people across borders to the United States. - [Who Are the War Criminals, Genocidaires, and Terrorists?](https://politicsrights.com/who-are-war-criminals-genocidaires-terrorists/): The attack by Hamas on October 7, the destruction and mass killings in Gaza, the assault on Ukraine, the torture chambers in Syria, are all crimes which shock the human conscience... - [Truth and Authoritarianism in America](https://politicsrights.com/truth-and-authoritarianism-in-america/): As millions of Americans are learning, it isn’t hard to tell when you are living in an autocracy. The signs are clear... - [Is Violence Shaped More by Place—or by Perception?](https://politicsrights.com/is-violence-shaped-place-perception/): A Molotov cocktail arcs through the night in Santiago during the 2019 protests against inequality; a baton slams into a young woman’s eyes in Tehran, October 2022, after she dares to protest Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. In Gaza, entire apartment blocks are flattened by airstrikes as journalists debate the terminology: conflict, war, or genocide? In Atlanta, police kill a forest defender in 2023 protesting the construction of “Cop City,” sparking outrage in some corners, indifference in others. Meanwhile, in Paris, the same year, protestors set fire to trash piles and clash with police over pension reforms; some call […] - [Why NATO’s Arctic Expansion Is Now Backfiring](https://politicsrights.com/why-natos-arctic-expansion-is-now-backfiring/): Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, there’s been a tectonic shift in Arctic diplomacy and security... - [The History of Tech-As-Religion](https://politicsrights.com/the-history-of-tech-as-religion/): The idea of a similarity between technology and religion is not novel. Influential thinkers from Karl Marx to Martin Heidegger to Martin Luther King, Jr., have commented on the relationship between the two phenomena. - [How the SAVE Act Threatens Voting Rights in the U.S.](https://politicsrights.com/how-save-act-threatens-voting-rights-u-s/): In April 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 22—the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Introduced as part of a broader push by Republican lawmakers to impose stricter voting regulations ahead of the 2026 midterms, the bill was framed as a tool to safeguard electoral integrity. It mandates that anyone registering to vote in federal elections must provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship—a significant departure from current federal standards, which typically rely on sworn attestations. While its stated goal is to prevent noncitizen voting, a practice already rare and illegal, critics argue that the legislation’s practical effect would […] - [Why Is Studying Philosophy Still Vital in the Age of AI?](https://politicsrights.com/why-studying-philosophy-vital-in-age-of-ai/): Why is studying philosophy vital in the age of AI? This question gains urgency as artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes how humans define knowledge, judgment, and meaning. - [Why Political Identity Feels Like Moral Faith Today](https://politicsrights.com/why-political-identity-feels-like-moral-faith/): The conceptual status of political identity has undergone a significant transformation. No longer reducible to a set of preferences over institutional arrangements, it now operates as a structure of meaning tied to personal worth, group affiliation, and moral allegiance. What once invited deliberation now demands affirmation. Political belonging has shifted from the terrain of policy to that of personhood—anchored not in interests, but in convictions that are emotionally charged and culturally sacralized. This shift redefines the very conditions under which disagreement can occur. This shift is not anecdotal. As Finkel et al. demonstrate, political sectarianism now rivals religious partisanship in […] - [Who Defines Hate Speech? Law, Platforms, and Political Power](https://politicsrights.com/hate-speech-depends-who-where-you-are/): A term that once aimed to name and restrict the most toxic forms of public expression now exists in a tangle of legal codes, private platform policies, and shifting cultural sensibilities. - [Can Democracy Survive Normative Artificial Intelligence?](https://politicsrights.com/democracy-normative-artificial-intelligence/): Democracy is built on the idea that law, not code, governs human life. Yet as artificial intelligence takes on increasingly normative functions—ranking speech, predicting behavior, filtering content, allocating resources—it begins to reshape what counts as legitimate, acceptable, or true. - [The Return of the Enemy: Carl Schmitt in 2025](https://politicsrights.com/the-return-of-the-enemy-carl-schmitt-in-2025/): In political theory, few concepts have been as controversial—and as enduring—as Carl Schmitt’s notion of “the political.” - [Why 'Ideology' Has Become a Weapon Once Again](https://politicsrights.com/why-ideology-has-become-a-weapon-once-again/): Across contemporary political debate, the term “ideology” is used increasingly to accuse rather than to explain. It no longer refers primarily to structures that sustain domination. - [Cinema as Inquiry: On Art, Knowledge, and Justice](https://politicsrights.com/cinema-as-inquiry-on-art-knowledge-and-justice/): For many viewers, cinema is a form of paid entertainment to relax or escape. In academic circles, cinema is mainly defined as a means of communication, representation, or an aesthetic object... - [Internet Shutdowns as a Tool of Authoritarian Repression](https://politicsrights.com/internet-shutdowns-authoritarian-repression/): According to Surfshark's 2024 report on internet censorship , internet shutdowns have become a central tactic of authoritarian control over the last decade. In the past ten years, there have been over 650 documented disruptions across Asia, affecting more than 4.3 billion people—approximately 91% of the continent’s population. - [Moral Judgement and the Normativity of Practical Identities](https://politicsrights.com/moral-judgement-normativity-identities/): My book introduces contemporary philosophical work on moral judgment originating from France, Germany, and the Anglo-American world... - [Religion in International Politics: Power and Influence](https://politicsrights.com/religion-international-politics-power-influence/): No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time. - [How Group Empathy Can Transform Politics and Society](https://politicsrights.com/how-group-empathy-transform-politics-society/): Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award. - [Our Disintegrating Societies: On What Divides Us](https://politicsrights.com/our-disintegrating-societies-on-what-divides-us/): As we observe our current world order becoming less cohesive, more volatile, socially fractured, politically polarized, and hence arguably less predictable, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand why. - [A New History of Atlantic Slavery from the Global South](https://politicsrights.com/history-atlantic-slavery-from-global-south/): Nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas during the era of the Atlantic slave trade... - [Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights](https://politicsrights.com/freedoms-how-enslaved-people-won-their-rights/): Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023). - [Does Free Speech Have a Future?](https://politicsrights.com/does-free-speech-have-a-future/): My thinking about freedom of expression begins with a simple observation: Freedom of expression does not simply protect individual liberty from state interference. - [When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness](https://politicsrights.com/animals-dream-world-of-animal-consciousness/): In the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle labeled sleep “a border-land between living and not living.” - [When Pop Stars Play Working-Class Heroes: Music and Labor](https://politicsrights.com/pop-stars-play-working-class-heroes-music-labor/): Do middle-class listeners find momentary joy in seeing Bad Bunny as part of the working class? - [Marijuana Rescheduling: Federal Uncertainty in the U.S.](https://politicsrights.com/marijuana-rescheduling-federal-uncertainty-u-s/): While the Biden Administration’s effort to reschedule marijuana seemed long overdue, the process has not been smooth and is now uncertain under the new Trump Administration. - [The Economic Consequences of Milton Friedman](https://politicsrights.com/economic-consequences-of-milton-friedman/): The term ‘neoliberalism’ is commonly used pejoratively and as a catch all for the cause of the malaise that has beset advanced economies of the West. - [Studying Taiwan from Its Own Perspective: Why It Matters](https://politicsrights.com/studying-taiwan-from-perspective-of-taiwan/): Taiwan is a vibrant democracy, an economic powerhouse, and a culturally rich society with deep historical roots. Yet, the study of Taiwan has often been filtered through external perspectives. - [A History of Liberalism for Illiberal Times: Freedom from Fear](https://politicsrights.com/history-liberalism-illiberal-freedom-fear/): Freedom from Fear analyzes the fears liberals have historically been most concerned with, which have varied over time. - [Digital Masquerade: Feminist and Queer Activism in China](https://politicsrights.com/digital-masquerade-feminist-queer-activism/): In 2015, Li Maizi, Wei Tingting, and three other feminists were arrested and detained for thirty-seven days in China after planning to circulate messages against sexual harassment in public spaces. - [How China’s E-Commerce Boom Charts a Digital Path to Growth](https://politicsrights.com/how-chinas-e-commerce-boom-charts-a-digital-path-to-growth/): In merely 20 years, China leapfrogged developed economies to build an e-commerce market with 800 million users, capturing nearly 50% of global online retail sales. - [Chronic Instability and Violence in South Sudan](https://politicsrights.com/chronic-instability-and-violence-in-south-sudan/): How did South Sudan’s peaceful secession from Sudan devolve so quickly into violence and protracted war? - [Rethinking Colonial Caribbean History](https://politicsrights.com/rethinking-colonial-caribbean-history/): Winner of the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History - [How Innovation Hype Devalues Reproductive Labor](https://politicsrights.com/how-innovation-hype-devalues-reproductive-labor/): The term innovation is so ubiquitous that we risk ignoring it or discounting its importance. It’s tempting to view it as nothing more than a new buzzword... - [World History of Sexualities](https://politicsrights.com/world-history-of-sexualities/): Sexuality—the range of acts related to erotic desire, romance, and reproduction, and the meanings attached to them—lies at the centre of human existence. - [Critical Theory and its Right-Wing Double](https://politicsrights.com/critical-theory-and-its-right-wing-double/): The most influential philosophers today are Right-wing philosophers. If this sounds incorrect, it is probably because we are operating with a specific understanding of “influence.” - [Heritage in War and Peace: An Ever-Growing Field](https://politicsrights.com/heritage-in-war-and-peace-an-ever-growing-field/): Karima Bennoune, the former UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, famously remarked that “cultural heritage is significant in the present, both as a message from the past and as a pathway to the future. - [3 Ways Colonialism Shaped Modern Inequality](https://politicsrights.com/3-ways-colonialism-shaped-modern-inequality/): Winner of the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award - [Asian Immigration and the Myth of Suburban Stability](https://politicsrights.com/asian-immigration-suburban-stability/): 2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner - [How U.S. States Became Battlegrounds for National Politics](https://politicsrights.com/how-us-states-battlegrounds-national-politics/): Winner of the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award - [Why Public Opinion on Trade Is Not Just About Economics](https://politicsrights.com/why-public-opinion-on-trade-economics/): Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award - [The Limits of Data: Race, Representation, and Experimentation](https://politicsrights.com/limits-data-race-representation-experimentation/): Winner of the 2022 William Sanders Scarborough Prize. - [The Politics of Black Death](https://politicsrights.com/the-politics-of-black-death/): Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award - [How Afro-Cuban Women Shaped Modern Cuba](https://politicsrights.com/how-afro-cuban-women-shaped-modern-cuba/): Winner of the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize - [Policing Dissent: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul](https://politicsrights.com/policing-dissent-counterinsurgency-in-istanbul/): Winner of the 2023 Anthony Leeds Prize ## Pages - [Partnerships](https://politicsrights.com/partnerships/): Partnering with Politics and Rights Review Politics and Rights Review is an independent, multilingual platform that amplifies critical research in the human and social sciences, bridging academic insight and public engagement through global knowledge mobilization. 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