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Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader is a Lecturer and Assistant Research Scientist in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses in Africana Studies, International Studies, and Sociology. He is author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (2019).

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War & Security

The Murderous Legacy of Cold War Anticommunism

A new book reveals how deeply the Washington-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Stuart Schrader

War & Security

The Making of the American Gulag

During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state. 

Stuart Schrader

War & Security

Imperialism After Empire

A new book reveals the extent of the "Greater United States," but territory is not as important as it used to be. Instead, imperialism endures today in the logic of capitalism.

Stuart Schrader

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