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John Torpey

John Torpey is the director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is also a professor of sociology and history. He has written or edited eight books: "Intellectuals, Socialism and Dissent: The East German Opposition and Its Legacy" (1995); "The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State" (2000); "Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World" (edited with Jane Caplan; 2001); "Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices" (2004); "Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War" (2005); "Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics" (2006); "The Post-Secular in Question" (2012); and, with Christian Joppke, "Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison" (2013).

Torpey is on the editorial board of Theory and Society and the Journal of Human Rights and edits a series for Temple University Press, titled "Politics, History and Social Change."

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Is the conflict in the contemporary Muslim world so unusual, given that Christians were doing similar things 400 to 500 years ago? Is it really a phenomenon that involves “Muslims,” or is it more a matter of conflicts peculiar to …

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I recently had the good fortune to travel to China for the first time. My itinerary took me to Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing. The first has long been familiar to Westerners as a locus of trade and international interaction; the …

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