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...]
April 26 Event: “Dictators and Their Secret Police:” Photos
Photographs are now available from the April 26, 2017 lecture "Dictators and Their Secret Police in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines," which featured speaker Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and author of the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Sheena Chestnut Greitens’ “Dictators and Their Secret Police”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the … [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...]
