New Books in Political Science

Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL Press, 2026)

20 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the University College London and a founder of the Global Informality Project. Her research f...

Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

20 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Thei...

Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)

18 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, ha...

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

17 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professor...

AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota

12 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for supr...

Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)

12 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries. Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a...

Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

11 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Karine Premont and Christopher Devine have a new edited volume focusing on the American Vice Presidency and analyzing not just the office and the o...

Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)

11 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,...

Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In At...

Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum

09 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Anniversaries provide opportunities to take stock and reflect. It is now ten years since voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots in a referend...

The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera

08 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features a conversation with Prachi and Ram, organizers with Savera, a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans ...

Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory

08 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become ...

Courtney Rickert McCaffrey et al., "Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)

05 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How should executives position a company for growth when the geopolitical future is so uncertain? Recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East and ti...

Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociologists, or...

The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Populism with Iain Quinn

01 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wi...

Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)

30 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reade...

India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?

29 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Democracy Dialogues, Maya Tudor speaks with two keen observers of Indian politics, Gilles Verniers and Yamini Aiyar, about what India...

The Instigators

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Black women have always been the most relentless instigators for change—building a democracy for all. In The Instigators: How Black Women Have Bee...

H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in ...

Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy

27 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about threats to democracy, we often imagine dramatic breakdowns—military coups, constitutional crises, or sudden collapses. But today...

Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster ass...

Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about threats to democracy, we often imagine dramatic breakdowns—military coups, constitutional crises, or sudden collapses. But today...

Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Maya Tudor speaks with her colleague and fellow political scientist Pepper Culpepper about his new book Billi...

Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)

25 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Th...

Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Bornstein, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon (and Divisional Associate Dean), has a new book that delves into the regulatory...

Nathan K. Finney, "Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War" (Cornell UP, 2025)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War⁠ (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores how the expansion of the Ame...

Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a po...

George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with raci...

Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Here in Episode 8 of Season 5, I interview Professor Sherif Girgis. A graduate of Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School...

Inken Von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2025)

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur?...

Carlos Martins, "Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini" (Desassossego, 2022)

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Carlos Martins joins the New Books Network to discuss his book Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini (Desassossego, 2022) (in Portuguese Fasci...

Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Haas speaks with political scientist Sean Lee about the changing relationship between majorities and minorities in the Middle East, the collapse...

Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly no...

T. V. Paul, "The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi" (Oxford UP, 2024)

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From a Distinguished International Relations Scholar comes The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford UP...

Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientist Steve Knott has a new book that focuses on conspiracy theories within the American presidency and often promulgated by the pres...

Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d...

Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

09 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have i...

Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public scho...

Steffen Mau et al., "The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" (Policy Press, 2026)

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s political debates are fiercely polarized. But looking beyond the headlines, The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Co...

J. Michael Cole, "The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War" (Polity, 2025)

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based security analyst and writer who has spent over two decades documenting Taiwan’s political and security landscape. ...

What Does the American Presidency Mean?

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Coming in the thick of the second Trump term, What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies is a timely ...

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...