INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 19 (2026) NO. 1

Contents

• Contents Page

  1

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• Editor's Introduction

  3-4

  Paul O'Connor

• ARTICLES

• Roberto Calasso: A thinker for our times

  5-20

  Arpad Szakolczai

• The Collapse of Symmetrical Order: Russia, the United States, and the Dissolution of the Counterweight Imagination

  21-42

  Ray Morgan

• Informal Leaders and Conflict Resolution in the Pukhtun Society of Charsadda, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  43-59

  Mohammad Taieb and Shabir Ahmad

• South Korea’s Relations With Japan From the Political Culture Perspective: The Intertwining of Nationality and Modernity

  61-80

  Le Tung Lam and Pham Thi Yen

• REVIEWS

• Review of Szakolczai, Arpad and O’Connor, Paul, eds (2025) Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, Cheltenham, UK, 734 pp.

  81-84

  Khanyile Mlotshwa

• A Reply to Khanyile Mlotshwa

  85-94

  Arpad Szakolczai and Paul O’Connor

• NOTES ON AUTHORS

  95-96

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