Scholars contend that weak institutions as manifest in corruption and bad governance are
driving people towards illiberal forms of democracy. This explanation is underspecified. It …

Contrary to ample attention on American military base closures at home, the consequences
of base closures abroad remain under-examined even as the American military continues to …

I describe how the upper and middle class in Metro Manila see the democratic state and
how they imagine reforming it. I argue that they are not turning away from democracy …

This article offers an intersectional analysis of how non-elites frame neighborhood as a
synecdoche for nation through tourism. In Cape Town, South Africa, white Western tourists …

Military-industrial practices have left widespread contamination affecting land, water, air, and
human and nonhuman bodies. This article uses decolonial analysis to examine the racial …

This chapter describes and analyses economic development planning in special economic
zones since the end of World War Page 1 Abstract This chapter describes and analyses …

This article analyses the local press' representation of an experimental military activity
located in Sardinia (Italy). We seek to assess the changes of the portrait of the military over a …

By developing the concept of “global borderlands”—semi-autonomous, foreign-controlled
geographic locations geared toward international exchange—this article shifts the focus of …

The study of foreign-local encounters is at the heart of much of social scientific research,
from the dynamics of globalized travel and migration to the study of colonialism and places …

Mediterranean style houses, mansions, and villas are found in elite enclaves around the
world. There is a large literature on gated communities. However, the ubiquity of this …