New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Siniša Malešević, "Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While nationalism is a term that is often associated with instability, violence, extremism, terrorism, wars and even genocide, in fact most forms of n...
Arely M. Zimmerman, "Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders (U Arizona Press, 2026) reshapes how we understand belonging, identi...
Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate wit...
Miranda Yaver, "Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Yaver’s new book, Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (Cambridge UP, 2026), has lots of examp...
Who Is Democracy Actually For? People, Power, and the Fight Against Democratic Decline
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Esam Boraey speaks with Shandana Khan Mohmand and Marjoke Oosterom, democracy experts at the Institute of Devel...
Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features S. Karthikeyan and S. Subbulakshmi, the Convenor and Secretary of the Ambedkar King Study Circle, an anti-caste organization bas...
Assessing Global Democratic Health Amidst a Growing Shadow of Autocracy
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Maya Tudor speaks with two democracy experts at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Freedom House to...
The British General Election of 2024: A Conversation with Robert Ford and Paula Surridge
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why and how did Labour win the 2024 election? In The British General Election of 2024 Robert Ford, a Professor of Politics at the University of Man...
Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Noo Saro-Wiwa is an author and journalist. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, she attended King's College London and Columbia Univ...
Nikki Luke, "Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy" (MIT Press, 2026)
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Nikki Luke traces the intertwined history of Atlanta’...
How Bolsonaro was Convicted: The Role of the Judiciary During and After Autocratization
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former Brazilian president Bolsonaro was found to have attempted a coup after losing the 2022 presidential elections, and he was convicted to 27 years...
Shameem Black, "Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions" (Columbia UP, 2023)
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism ...
The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this sixth episode of Season 5, I interview Mr. Chris Griswold. An alum of Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he was formerly a s...
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny interviews Jacob Siegel, writer, Army veteran, and author of The Informat...
Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the small nation of Georgia established its independence in May 1918. Its leaders surprised the world by...
Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz, "The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge" (U California Press, 2026)
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The global refugee regime has shifted under our feet. Over the last forty years, international asylum practices have expanded to include the queer ...
Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Promises
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Gary Hoover about his new book, Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (U...
Jane Vaynman, "Enemies in Agreement: Political Volatility and the Design of Arms Control" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why do adversaries sometimes cooperate to restrain their military competition? Why do they design arms control agreements with intrusive verification ...
169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our Recall This Buck series began by speaking with Christine Desan of Harvard Law School about how key ideas—and the actual currency, physical coins...
Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence...
Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel A. Bell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, a...
Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years later...
Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) exami...
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti...
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core ...
Radio ReOrient 14.2: State of the Ummah – Authoritarianism and Resistance: Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hosted by SherAli Tahreen and Shehla Khan, with Tanzeen Doha and Salman Sayyid
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Radio ReOrient’ s occasional series The State of the Ummah, SherAli Tahreen, Shehla Khan, Tanzeen Doha, and Salman Sayyid unpack...
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: W...
Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story ...
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former." So argues Ho-Fung Hung...
Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely ...
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation" (Brill, 2026)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I had a substantive conversation with Dr. Stephen Onyango Ouma, author of Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation (Bril...
Marta Lorimer, "Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological R...
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions" (Stanford UP, 2026)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take...
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What role did Gen Z play in the popular uprising that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in the summer of 2024? And what marks have the upris...
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom by Mark Pennington This highly original and innovative book is the first to co...
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to ad...
Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a ...
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It sh...
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—and what that reveals about American democracy. Congress, the central democratic i...
Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that ...
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gender is becoming a central battleground in contemporary authoritarian politics, but how do autocrats manipulate these debates to their own advantage...
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel “viewed history as consisting of stages punctuated by times of upheaval,” the author John B. Judis wrote in a recent...
Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why do supposedly accountability-enhancing electoral reforms often fail in young democracies? How can legislators serve their constituents when partie...
Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, The Political Economy of Security (Princeton University Press, 2026), Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretic...
A Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 V-Dem Report
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Kenneth Roberts and Paul Friesen, democracy experts at Cornell University, to u...
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After...
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an inte...
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military r...
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, has been writing about war for decades, including in his book Bombing to Win: Air Po...
Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives...
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroel...
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between ...
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Giant companies, launch rockets into space, control satellite communication and develop era-defining AI technologies. But they are also seen as promot...
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton Un...
Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters and citizens...
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of deepening polarization, Sari Hanafi examines how social scientists often reproduce the very injustices they seek to challenge, taking ent...
Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How and why do leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban not only come to power, but remain in power for so long (in Orban’s case 16 years)? And why doe...
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—what does that reveal about American democracy? In Stuck: How Money, Media and Viole...
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framewo...
The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny sits down with political theorist Laura Field to trace the intellectual cur...
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Elizabeth Suhay, the author of Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics. Faith in the Ameri...
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet inste...
Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Populist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers ...
Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years. Whether reports have focused...
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, Senegal faced a severe constitutional and electoral crisis. The presidential vote was postponed, tensions escalated, and fears of democratic ...
Thailand’s February 2026 Snap Election: A Conversation with Prof Duncan McCargo
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode unpacks the 8 February 2026 snap election and constitutional referendum in Thailand. The results paint a mixed picture: a decisive win fo...
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing t...
Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that ...
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age The University of Chicago Press, 2024 Kenneth Lowande Political Scientist ...
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
International law scholars are often among the sharpest critics of the Trump administration—but what if the usual story misses something essential? ...
Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), Lisa Björkman invites our attention to political form and how ...
How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape h...
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gr...
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode from the Vault, we revisit Nadine Gordimer’s James Lecture on the political landscape of South Africa, presented at the New Yor...
Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections (Routledge, 2026) assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 1...
India’s Democratic Republic in Flux
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Democracy Dialogues, co-host Maya Tudor speaks with Yogendra Yadav – political thinker, activist, and one of India’s most promi...
Competing Visions for International Order
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are we living in an era of competing international orders? A new book, entitled Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Di...
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admini...
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Camb...
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Off...
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explo...
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb...
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this tr...
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lind...
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for...
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officia...
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles...
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro...
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This book examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, ...
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is the first full-length work on a seminal figure in the settlement house movement, which ...
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Co...
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, a...
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity (Vernon Press, 2026) a forthcoming 2026 book by Yunus Emre Ozigci, offers a d...
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Duncan Kelly is a new intellectu...
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state a...
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Michael Illuzzi has a fascinating new book on peoplehood in the United States, focusing on different political actors at different...
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2026) explores the work of Puerto Rican musical superstar Bad Bu...
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Mori...
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Though the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Ol...
Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West" (Hachette UK, 2025)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—e...