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Buehler, Michael (2014) 'Review of: State management of religion in Indonesia, by Myengkyo Seo, New York: Routledge, 2013; The roots of terrorismin Indonesia: from Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah, by Solahudin, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013; Contemporary developments in Indonesian Islam: explaining the “conservative turn”, edited by Martin van Bruinessen, Singapore: ISEAS,2013.' Democratization, 22 (3). pp. 580-585.

Neveling, Patrick (2014) 'Review: Thomas Piketty "Capital in the Twenty-First Century.' Allegra - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology .

Chan, Stephen (2014) 'Zambia and Zimbabwe: Two Histories of Two Very Different Sorts.' The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 103 (6). pp. 616-619.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: David Kaposi, Violence and Understanding in Gaza: The British Broadsheets' Coverage of the War, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.' LSE Review of Books .

Luczanits, Christian (2014) 'Review: Siudmak, John. The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and its Influences. Vol. 28, Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2, South Asia. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (3). pp. 600-601.

Shah, Mustafa (2014) 'Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation with an Introduction. By Lejla Demiri. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 566. €158 (cloth).' Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 73 (2). p. 378.

Daily, Christopher A (2014) 'Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities.' The China Quarterly, 219 . pp. 897-899.

Howard, Keith (2014) 'The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (3). pp. 644-646.

Howard, Keith (2014) 'The Korean Popular Culture Reader, by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, eds.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (3). pp. 643-644.

Janku, Andrea (2014) 'Review of 'The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited' by Louisa Lim.' LSE Review of Books .

Pérez Niño, Helena (2014) 'Review of: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams. Abingdon: Earthscan, 2013. Pp. xv+627. £49.99 (pb). ISBN: 9781849712316.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 14 (4). pp. 604-607.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2014) 'Review of Enemy on the Euphrates: the British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge.' BBC History Magazine, 15 (9). pp. 70-71.

Sadan, Mandy (2014) 'Review of 'Local Traditions, Global Modernities: Dress, Identity and the Creation of Public Self-Images in Contemporary Urban Myanmar' by Georg Noack.' South East Asia Research, 22 (3). pp. 450-453.

Mucciarelli, Federico (2014) 'Review of: The Spirit of Corporate Law – Core Princi- ples of Corporate Law in Continental Europe by Günther H. Roth and Peter Kindler. Beck – Hart – Nomos, 2013.' European Business Organization Law Review, 15 (3). pp. 443-445.

Urban, Frauke (2014) 'Review of: "Large Dams in Asia: Contested Environments Between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance".' Mountain Research and Development, 34 (3). pp. 307-308.

Chan, Stephen (2014) 'Review of: Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic.' Focus: The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation, 73 . pp. 62-63.

Kim, Heewon (2014) 'Review of: Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India by Rochana Bajpai, Oxford University Press, 2013.' South Asia Research, 34 (2). pp. 186-188.

Mezzadri, Alessandra (2014) 'Review of 'At work in the informal economy of India: a perspective from the bottom up', by Jan Breman (2013).' Journal of Agrarian Change, 14 (3). pp. 466-470.

Laamann, Lars (2014) 'Review of: A Comprehensive Manchu–English Dictionary by Jerry Norman.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (2). pp. 402-404.

Giladi, Paul (2014) 'Review of S. Sedgwick. ‘Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity'.' Hegel Bulletin, 35 (1). pp. 134-136.

Whitham, Ben (2014) 'Review of: Democratic Futures: Re-visioning Democracy Promotion by Milja Kurki. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 296 pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 0 415 69034 8.' Political Studies Review, 12 (2). p. 259.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Sarah Ferber, 'Bioethics in Historical Perspective'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.' LSE Review of Books .

Oette, Lutz (2014) 'Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan, Mark Fathi Massoud, Cambridge University Press 2013.' Journal of African Law, 58 (1). pp. 175-178.

Pierson, Stacey (2014) 'The Mighty Ming's Culture of Power: a new study of Ming-era China and the place of art and artefacts in its society.' The Art Newspaper (256). p. 60.

Weeks, John (2014) 'Review of: Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas.' Science and Society, 78 (2). pp. 249-251.

Harrington, Louise (2014) 'Review of: Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Lowland. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.' Warscapes: independent online magazine .

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Gender Politics in Transitional Justice (Catherine O'Rourke).' Gender and Development, 22 (1). pp. 197-199.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Marcel Danesi, 'The History of the Kiss! The Birth of Popular Culture', Palgrave Macmillan , 2013.' LSE Review of Books .

Oya, Carlos (2014) 'Review of Morten Jerven Poor Numbers. How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Ithaca / Londres, Cornell University Press, coll. « Cornell Studies in Political Economy », 2013.' Politique Africaine (133). pp. 187-192.

Laamann, Lars (2014) 'Review of: Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast by Norman Smith. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.' China Information, 28 (01). pp. 105-106.

Han, Enze (2014) 'Review of Emily Yeh, 'Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development'.' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space .

Fischel, Roy S. (2014) 'Formation of a Muslim Community in 15C Gujarat.' Dissertation Reviews .

Jackson, Keith (2014) 'Book reviews: Natural disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan: response and recovery after Japan's 3/11 / After the great East Japan earthquake: political and policy change in post-Fukushima Japan.' Asia Pacific Business Review, 21 (4). pp. 565-573.

Tythacott, Louise (2014) 'Review of 'Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology' by Shaila Bhatti.' Museum History Journal, 7 (1). pp. 122-123.

Toporowski, Jan (2014) 'Review of: 'The Economics of Financial Turbulence: Alternative Theories of Money and Finance' by Bill Lucarelli.' Science and Society, 78 (1). pp. 117-119.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2014) 'Review: Satvinder Juss and Colin Harvey, Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law.' King’s College Law Journal, 25 (1). pp. 125-129.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Katrin Pietzner, Bildung, Elite, und Konkurrenz. Heiden und Christen vor der Zeit Constantins, STAC 77, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (1). pp. 79-80.

Haustein, Jörg (2014) 'Review of Helga Dickow, 'Religion and Attitudes towards Life in South Africa: Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Reborns'.' Pneuma, 36 (1). pp. 131-133.

Caldwell, Ernest (2014) 'Review of Mike MacConville and Eva Pils eds., 'Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China'.' China Quarterly, 216 . pp. 1078-1080.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Rachel Neis, 'The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture. Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (5). pp. 557-559.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Margaret H. Williams, 'Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment'. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (5). pp. 561-563.

McCausland, Shane (2014) 'Review of Craig Clunas, Screen of Kings: Royal art and power in Ming China (London: Reaktion Books, 2013).' The Burlington Magazine, CLVI (July 2014). p. 466.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) '"Review of: Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012".' Journal of Semitic Studies, 59 (2). pp. 459-460.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Alan Appelbaum, The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (7/8). pp. 859-861.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian Context, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (7/8). pp. 867-869.

Sadan, Mandy (2014) 'Review of Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia edited by Sarah Turner. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013. pp.308.' ASEASUK News, 55 . pp. 19-20.

Buehler, Michael (2014) 'Review of: Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan by Dipali Mukhopadhyay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.' Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 44 (4). e15.

Buehler, Michael (2014) 'Review of: Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies by Edward Gibson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.' Publius, 44 (2).

Buehler, Michael (2014) 'Review of: Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia: Provincial Proliferation by Ehito Kimura. London: Routledge, 2013.' Indonesia, 97 . pp. 135-138.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) 'Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013).' Human Rights Law Review, 14 (2). pp. 386-390.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of Jenny Labendz, 'Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 65 (2). pp. 425-427.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Alexander Samely et al., 'Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity: An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmud'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 65 (2). pp. 423-425.

Haustein, Jörg (2014) 'Review of Katrien Pype, 'The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa'.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20 (4). pp. 813-814.

Howard, Keith (2014) 'Book Review: Korean P’ansori Singing Tradition: Development, Authenticity, and Performance History by Yeonok Jang.' Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies, 15 .

Khalili, Laleh (2014) 'A review of Victoria Brittain’s Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror.' The Political Quarterly, 85 (1).

Khalili, Laleh (2014) 'The Complexities of Gender Relations in a Masculine State: A review of Madawi Al-Rasheed’s A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia.' Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42 (3).

Fischel, Roy S. (2014) 'Review of Turning King to Messiah: The Islamic King in Central Asia and India.' Marginalia .

Tallotte, William (2014) 'Review of Richard Widdess, 'Dāphā: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City. Music, Performance and Meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal'. Farnham: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series, 2013.' Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie, 27 . pp. 289-292.

Poole, Nigel (2014) 'Review. Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlement and Capabilities by B. Pritchard, A. Rammohan, M. Sekher, S. Parasuraman, and C. Choitani.' Food Chain, 4 (3). pp. 289-294.

Achcar, Gilbert (2014) 'Review: 'The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge' by Ilan Pappé.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 43 (3). pp. 72-74.

Nisancioglu, Kerem (2014) 'Review of Peter Gran, "The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History".' International Journal of Turkish Studies, 20 (1/2).

Povey, Tara (2014) 'Review of 'The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran'.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46 (4). pp. 838-840.

Haustein, Jörg (2014) 'Review of Ludovic Lado ‘Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization: Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon’.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 44 (3-4). pp. 417-419.

Heller, Jon (2014) 'Review of - Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics by David Bosco. Oxford: Oxford University Press.' H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews, XVI (12). pp. 5-9.

Buehler, Michael (2014) 'Review of: Regional Dynamics in a Decentralized Indonesia, edited by Hal Hill. Singapore: ISEAS, 2014.' ASEASUK News, 56 . pp. 29-31.

Tas, Latif (2014) 'Review of: Nivedita Das Kundu (Ed.), India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Prospects.' South Asia Research, 34 (2). pp. 171-173.

Neveling, Patrick (2014) 'Review of: Die Erfindung des Bruttosozialprodukts. Globale Ungleichheit in der Wissensgeschichte der Ökonomie.' Comparativ . pp. 140-3.

Williams, Richard David (2014) 'Review of: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah. London: Hurst, 2014.' Chowkidar, 13 (6). pp. 136-137.