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The latest issue of Development Policy Review is free online. Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga (Rodboud): The Rise of Transnational Private Meta-Regulators. Makau W. Mutua (SUNY Buffalo): What is the Future of Transitional Justice? Guy Sinclair (Victoria): State Formation, Liberal Reform, and the Growth of International Organizations. Adam Chilton and Eric Posner (Chicago): The Influence of History on States’ Compliance with Human Rights Obligations. Robin L. West (Georgetown): A Tale of Two Rights. Ifem E. Orji (NLDI): Could the Rwandan and Darfur (Sudan) Genocides have been Prevented by the International Community? A Postmortem. Francesco Macheda (Bifrost): The Roots of “Globalization”: Adam Smith and the Virtues of Free Trade. Adam S. Chilton (Chicago) and Mila Versteeg (Virginia): Do Constitutional Rights Make a Difference? Iddo Porat reviews The Global Model of Constitutional Rights by Kai Moller. The NRA’s stranglehold threatens the whole world: Scott Beauchamp on how the organization’s resistance to international arms control reveals its true mission — corporate lobbying. Joshua Kurlantzick on the great deglobalizing: Our interconnected world is shrinking back toward its national borders — and that’s a problem. Breaking a decades-long trend, the world gets more violent. Vindu Goel and Andrew E. Kramer on how Web freedom is seen as a growing global issue. Tim Maughan on the invisible network that keeps the world running. Jacob Poushter on who’s having a good or bad day around the world.