We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sheena Chestnut Greitens (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Co-Winner, 2017 Best Book Award, American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative Democratization Co-Winner, 2017 Best Book Award, International Studies Association How do dictators stay in … [Read more...]


