In June 2020, the NSI (then GAPP) book club hosted the project “Filling the (reading) GAPP: Voices from the Periphery”, which brought together academics from the global south to read and discuss three books. All three sessions were recorded and shared on our YouTube channel. The first meeting was entitled “Introducing the Posts-: Post-socialism meets Post-colonialism” and was based on a reading of the book Beyond State Crisis: Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Colonial Eurasia in Comparative Perspective, published in 2002 by Mark R. Beissinger & Crawford Young and edited by Woodrow Wilson Canter Press.