New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilisation efforts, and a primary tool for responding to ci...
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazine, and an expert on the Jewish far right. She jo...
Stephen Boucher et al., "The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance" (Routledge, 2023)
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance (Routledge, 2023) explores the concepts, methodologies, and implicati...
Have We Entered a New Era of African Politics and International Relations?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is the recent resurgence of military coups reshaping politics in sub-Saharan Africa? Is faith in multiparty elections waning among citizens? And how d...
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportun...
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael W. Doyle's book Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright, 2023) offers an urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Co...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavio...
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Japan has historically maintained extended periods of isolationist policies and continues to uphold some of the strictest immigration laws in the worl...
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states...
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril ...
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The Slippery Slope to a Multiculturalism of Caste" Professor Balmurli Natrajan has long studied questions of caste, nationalism and fascism in the ...
Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite theories to the contrary, religious nationalism, and the use of religion to determine membership in the national community, has continued to p...
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique...
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Isak Svensson (editor) and Laurie Nathan (contributor) about Conflict Mediation in the Arab World (Syracuse UP, 2023), a very im...
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era started the retreat of the state. Privatisation and deregulation meant power was handed over to corporations and ma...
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Sec...
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała...
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent deca...
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Historians have tended to view the Cold War as a global ideological confrontation between an expansionist communist Soviet Union and a capitalist Unit...
Sandra Destradi, "Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively" (Bristol UP, 2023)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through...
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy. For more than three ...
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In my talk with Barry Gewen on his 2020 book, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W. W. Norton, 2020), we explore the disp...
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clea...
Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revol...
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer The...
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics (Cornell UP, 2023) examines the conditions under which the United States is wi...
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the bal...
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia and Ukraine have alternative histories and alternative destinies. After the Soviet Union collapsed - depending on who you spoke to – they wer...
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersi...
The US State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Bill Russo. Ass...
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and...
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have a...
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experi...
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly bel...
Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty--how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and neces...
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observatio...
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first book in the storied career of one of the most influential conservative legal scholars and philosophers of our day is the focus of an upcomin...
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism an...
Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, host Bálint Madlovics sat down for a fascinating discussion on the impact of the war on Ukraine’s ...
Political Polarisation: Have We Got It Wrong?
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is political polarisation? How different is it from ‘normal’ democratic conflict? And why have we been getting it wrong? Listen to Andreas Sc...
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner). Now the pair are back with Where Have All the Democr...
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a...
Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. ...
Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State (Cornell UP, 2023), Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in...
The Future of World Disorder: A Discussion with Peter R. Neumann
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do confusions in the West threaten a new world disorder? It’s a question asked by Professor Peter R. Neumann of Kings College, London. He is the aut...
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being a...
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Brendan Doherty has a new book that dives into the ways that presidents have raised money for themselves, their parties, and other...
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies...
David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies in North America and Australasia, yet Native communities have made unique contributi...
Eric M. Patashnik, "Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most successful policies not only solve problems. They also build supportive coalitions. Yet, sometimes, policies trigger backlash and mobilize op...
Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Toward a Free Economy: Swantantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023), Aditya Balasubramanian charts t...
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East The culminati...
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Laist, professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport, has a new edited volume focusing specifically on popular cul...
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Tac...
Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical an...
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fro...
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, Colin Clarke, director of research at the Soufan Center, discusses the possible trajectories of the Israel...
Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the revival of great power competition in international relations, the term "grand strategy" has also encountered a considerable revival from its...
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do politicians write poems? And what does a politician’s poetry tell us about their leadership? In this episode, a collective of researchers fro...
Eleonora Mattiacci, "Volatile States in International Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth account of why countries' treacherous foreign policies often have harmless origins, how this predicament shapes international politics, an...
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W...
Alexandra Hudson, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Hudson, daughter of the "Manners Lady," was raised to respect others. But as she grew up, Hudson discovered a difference between politeness-...
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-autho...
Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public app...
Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This book is a tour de force. In The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr Paolo Sandro e...
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is notoriously fiery. No doubt part of what’s gripping about it is ...
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the clim...
Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Patrick Weil, author of The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, ...
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett, "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this engaging interview with Cheryl Lawther, who talks about why the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar, 2023) is on...
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Irrationality rules” in war, Michael Mann writes in his magisterial 2023 book, On Wars (Yale UP, 2023), a history that begins with the Roman R...
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian Am...
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual st...
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law esta...
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terr...
Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Navigating through the intricate web of Middle Eastern geopolitics, few are better equipped to provide insights than Itamar Rabinovich in his compelli...
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-le...
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to ...
From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her n...
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The American public’s confidence in the United States Supreme Court is a historic low – in part based on a belief that the Supreme Court is incr...
Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Proxy wars like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine have played major roles in military history. Historian Paul Rahe takes us back to one o...
Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology...
Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of ...
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Allison M. Prasch, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that focuses on the w...
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crime...
Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Uncivil liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Vikram V...
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits a...
Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the "politicization" of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many ha...
Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall, "Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia (University of Toronto Press, 2023), Dr. Javier G...
Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Tom Gallagher about his new book Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022 (Scotview, 2023). Represe...
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program evolve from a Depression-era effort to use up surplus goods into America's foundational food ass...
Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Within our mandate, the [European Central Bank] is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough". With tho...
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions fostered tight-knit communities, touching nea...
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Rasmussen’s new book, The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter (UP of Kansas, 2023), is a p...
Making Sense of the 2023 Spanish Election
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What were the key factors shaping the 2023 Spanish general election? How did the progressive government of Pedro Sánchez defy expectations and secure...
The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is liberalism, and what thinkers shaped it? Does it take a stance on moral and religious issues? What is its relationship with nationalism and po...
Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison (Pluto Press, 2022) is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from m...
Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Rob Schneider, Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington, ...
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingl...
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores t...
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Empires are supposed to be a thing of the past but very big countries with global reach are becoming more entrenched. By 2050, almost 40 per cent o...