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This issue of New Political Science presents six research articles and a book review symposium. The first piece, by Laura Planas Gifra, uses a critical evolutionary perspective to show how legal shifts in postapartheid South Africa have supported the securitization of migration policy in that country. The second, by Ben Cross, uses the emergent analytic framework of radical realism to explain why some “facts” count as such, while others do not, for politicians seeking to devise policy responses to the Islamic State organization ISIS. While recognizing clear benefits, Hina Cheema’s research on the South-South Development Cooperation Model also reveals certain shortcomings of the model for poor communities in Brazil, India, and South Africa. Em Rosner’s piece critically appraises the long-term detrimental impacts of state-sanctioned torture on political prisoners. Paul Baumgardner’s piece analyzes the rhetorical positioning of three US presidents (Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush) in...