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Altmetric Attention Score: 26
The Sahel crisis since 2012
African Affairs | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-26
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Altmetric Attention Score: 21
Recasting the nation: transforming heroes of the Soviet Union into symbols of Kazakhstani patriotism
Central Asian Survey | Area Studies 2020-08-27
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 21
From indifference to independence: Turkey’s shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s
Middle Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-10
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 21
As far apart as earth and sky: a survey of Chinese and Cambodian construction workers in Sihanoukville
Critical Asian Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-26
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Altmetric Attention Score: 20
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Building Yugoslavia in the Sand? Dalmatian Refugees in Egypt, 1944–1946
Slavic Review | Area Studies 2020-08-10
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Altmetric Attention Score: 19
The Vulnerability and Resilience of African Food Systems, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
African Studies Review | Area Studies 2020-08-21
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Altmetric Attention Score: 17
The Politicisation of Liberation-Struggle Exhumations in Eastern Zimbabwe: Spiritual Evocation, Patriotism and Professionalism
Journal of Southern African Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-26
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Altmetric Attention Score: 16
White Medicine, White Ethics: On the Historical Formation of Racism in Australian Healthcare
Journal of Australian Studies | History Area Studies 2020-08-19
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Altmetric Attention Score: 15
Norm contestation, statecraft and the South China Sea: defending maritime order
Pacific Review | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-13
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Altmetric Attention Score: 13
The terrorist and the mercenary: Private warriors against Nigeria’s Boko Haram
African Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-05
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 11
Global Cities versus Rustbelt Realities: The Dilemmas of Urban Development in Russia
Slavic Review | Area Studies 2020-08-10
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Altmetric Attention Score: 10
The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing
Review of African Political Economy | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-27
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 10
The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China Emily Baum Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018 ix + 267 pp. $37.50 ISBN 978-0-226-55824-0
China Quarterly | Area Studies 2020-08-13
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 10
The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific
Pacific Review | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-25
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Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980
Journal of Southern African Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-26
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
Social Science Japan Journal | Area Studies 2020-08-13
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
The when, what, where and why of European Union sanctions
European Security | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-04
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Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona process 25 years after
Mediterranean Politics | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-05
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain since 2011
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-12
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
The Central Asian revolt of 1916: a collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution
Central Asian Survey | Area Studies 2020-08-20
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia
South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-19
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Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’
South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-06
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
The Keur Farah Pahlavi Project and Iranian-Senegalese Relations in the 1970s
Iranian Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-20
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Special issue: ‘Britain, Turkey and NATO, 1945–1960’
Middle Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-10
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Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Patriotism without Patriots? Perm΄-36 and Patriotic Legitimation in Russia
Slavic Review | Area Studies 2020-08-10
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire by David R. Ambaras
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War Taomo Zhou Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019 xiii + 318 pp. $43.95 ISBN 978-1-50173993-4
China Quarterly | Area Studies 2020-08-13
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Altmetric Attention Score: 5
“Does Džeko Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina?”: Demographics as a Hostage of Ethno-politics in the 2013 Census
East European Politics and Societies | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-17
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 5
The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 5
Perception of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions among secondary school students
Journal of Baltic Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-25
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Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Using Content Analysis to Study Political Texts: Notes on Turkish Parliamentary Debates
Mediterranean Politics | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-12
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
The Code of Putinism
Europe-Asia Studies | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-19
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Asia’s regional architecture: alliances and institutions in the Pacific century
Asian Studies Review | Area Studies 2020-08-11
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
Politics, Religion & Ideology | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-20
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
“Why Don’t You Go to the Mosque?” Epistemic Deference and Everyday Religious Practices in Hui Muslim Communities
Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-18
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh
Journal of Contemporary Asia | Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan by Sabine Frühstück
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
The Transformation of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Democratic Movement
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-14
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya
Review of African Political Economy | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-10
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles by Alexander Brown, and: Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima by Anna Wiemann
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Transition Economies. Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Europe-Asia Studies | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-19
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Determining the Determinants: Factors of Change in China's South China Sea Strategy, 1995–2015*
Pacific Focus | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-28
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Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow. By Jeff Sahadeo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiii, 288 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Figures. $42.95, hard bound.
Slavic Review | Area Studies 2020-08-10
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms by Wai-Ming Ng
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-08
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Nationalism and Sport: A Review of the Field
Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-25
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09