New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, s...
The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In A United Ireland: Why Unification in Inevitable and How It Will Come About (Biteback Publishing, 2017), Kevin Meagher argues that a reasoned, pr...
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st centur...
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended ...
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis and civilians from at least 25 other countr...
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime (Basic Books, 2023), political historian Dr. Sam Lebovic uncovers th...
Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (Picador, 2023), Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life,...
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, fro...
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary world is beset with a wide variety of conflicts, all of which have features without historical precedent. While most accounts of peac...
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Steven Rogers’ new book focuses on the deceptively complex question of how it is that voters do or don’t/can and can’t hold ...
Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite its extraordinary diversity, life in the People’s Republic of China is all too often viewed mainly through the lens of politics, with dynami...
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson...
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on our Violent Majorities conversations about In...
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial underst...
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge U...
Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do resea...
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars Stephen Engel and Timothy Lyle have a new book that dives into the thinking around power, political and cultural progress, and the LGBTQ+ com...
Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are Roman political assumptions similar to versus different from our own? What did the Founding Fathers get right and wrong about the Ancients? Ho...
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Adam Mestyan (Duke Uni...
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memor...
Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Ele...
James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global...
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, le...
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worke...
The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration has become one of the biggest issues in all western democracies. And the debate is so charged it's hard to know who to believe. Which is w...
Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nat...
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does astrology, palm-reading and fortune telling have to do with politics in Thailand, and how can we make sense of these divination practices an...
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale...
Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) - as the only permanent international court that addresses crimes against humanity, genocide, and war ...
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What (and why) can and can't we say? What do empirical examples both at home and abroad tell us about how we should protect freedom of speech? How do ...
António Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
António Costa Pinto's book An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (Routle...
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We often narrate the history of women’s rights in the United States by focusing on the fight for suffrage. Yet starting as early as 1835, states exp...
Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's Director John Torpey interviews Grzegorz Ekiert, Chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard...
Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2022) discusses the emergence of the judiciary as an assert...
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, a...
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
European governments are emerging from 15 years of on-again, off-again crises that upended their budgetary positions. From close to balance in 2008, t...
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With increasing talk of de-dollarization and the Gulf attempts to get more influence in the IMF it’s a good time to talk about the world’s interna...
Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle Eastern...
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in...
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms (Routledge, 2021) by Dr. Troels Burchall Henningsen examines t...
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...