New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle Ea...
Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of “hybrid sovereignty” describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as con...
Stephenie Foster and Susan A. Markham, "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, Sweden announced the world’s first “feminist foreign policy,” an approach more than two dozen other nations have since adopted. But dif...
India, Asia, and the Global South
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the emergence of the Global South as a political actor? What is the role of India within this framework? Which challenges and...
Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century (U Georgia Press, 2023), Melissa Es...
Nicholas Tampio, "Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Tampio, a political theorist at Fordham University, has a new book that focuses on teaching political theory. For many of us who teach politi...
Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Welter's book The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise (SUNY Press, 2023) examines how China's traditional cult...
The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is tha...
Should We Be Optimistic About Global Governance?
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group. Gowan discusse...
Emily McTernan, "On Taking Offence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of work in moral, political, and legal theory aims to define the offensive. Surprisingly, relatively little attention has been paid to the affe...
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023)....
Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Indian Supreme Court was established nearly seventy-five years ago as a core part of India's constitutional project. Does the Court live up to the...
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the United States shows how artists, intellectuals, and...
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast. Fortunately, each tells a different and compell...
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, a...
Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second...
Naveeda Khan, "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham UP, 2023)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Cl...
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst increasing acrimony and political strain, many worry that democratic governance has an expiration date. To answer these concerns, Josiah Ober l...
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States...
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author of...
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus...
Iqra Shagufta Cheema, ed., "The Other #MeToos" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags li...
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to fu...
Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we talk about China? It’s a question every analyst, academic, policymaker, and reporter probably needs to ask themselves. Is China, as some o...
Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics ...
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023). The argument for metaethical relativism--the vie...
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a curr...
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empi...
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
50 years ago, anarchism was written off by some as a set of outdated idealistic ideas that had no contemporary relevance. Then came protests at events...
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, de...
Coups and the Threat of “Feel Good” Militarism in Africa
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we seeing a rise in coups in Africa and growing debate about the possible benefits of military rule? What are the roots of “feel good” mil...
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, t...
Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emilee Booth Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, has a new book that examines the idea of the vote, and what thi...
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speec...
The Shadow War between America and Russia
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Western analysts and media often assess the prospect that Moscow might use nuclear weapons as the war in Ukraine grinds on, possibly to a flailing Rus...
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Pa...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork The Lord of the Rings delighted so many of us as children, yet it and its vast body of accompanying work, such as the S...
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project: ...
Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue: Indonesia and Beyond
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inequality has always been key to understanding Indonesia’s development. But this is a multidimensional issue, and one that has manifested in vastly...
India, a Non-Aligned Member of the International System?
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off our Fall 2023 season of International Horizons with Upendra Choudhury from Aligarh Muslim University discussing the role of India in the c...
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Blac...
Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as ...
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are r...
Bryan Pitts, "Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (U California Press, 2023)
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Pitts' book Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship (U California Press, 2023) revea...
Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks, "Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in...
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 202...
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. ...
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly ...
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
29 Aug 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...
How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natural law theory is known to be more emphasized among Catholics than Protestants. Why is that the case, and should it be? Do Protestants need to foc...
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak, And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book i...
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the start of the new millennium, history took a dramatic turn. Faced...
Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wedged between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, at the intersection of the world’s busiest shipping routes, Djibouti has long been a global geostrate...
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader ...
Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism...
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare...
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wal...
Indrajit Roy, "Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election" (Manchester UP, 2023)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world's largest election. Indrajit Roy edited volume Passionate Politics: Democracy, Develo...
Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three political theorists, Smita A. Rahman (DePauw University), Katherine A. Gordy (San Francisco State University), and Shirin S. Deylami (Western Wa...
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pub...
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode of POSTSCRIPT explores and examines director Greta Gerwig’s film, Barbie. This Warner Brothers’ movie has been in theaters for ...
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, "Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have gained a renewed momentum in recent years, and have come to be viewed by governments and funders alike as a si...
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two blockbuster cases came down in June of 2022. The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen...
Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India" (Duke UP, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India (Duke UP, 2023), Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics throug...
Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter if judges are nice to each other? The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (Oxford UP, 2023)argues tha...
Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is currently home to six generations of people: -the Silents, born 1925-1945 -Baby Boomers, born 1946-1964 -Gen X, born 1965-1979...
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia - a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging ...
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totali...
The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, it seemed Traditionalism was an esoteric and irrelevant set of beliefs. Since then, powerful people sympathetic to its ideas have ov...
In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what y...
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does civil society look like in Indonesia and Cambodia, and who are civil society elites? In this podcast interview, editors of the recently publ...
Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a le...
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on educat...
What Can We Learn from Indonesian Democracy? A Conversation with Dan Slater
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from Indonesia about democratic resilience and backsliding? Why should we think of Indonesian democracy as a useful example? And wha...
Terrence Lyons, "The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did a group with its origins in a small Marxist-Leninist insurgency in northern Ethiopia transform itself into a party (the EPRDF) with eight mill...
Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British hist...
Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan about their new book Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War (Oxford UP, 2023) The ongoing war and con...
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s...
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael J. Diamond's book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times (Phoenix Publishing, 2022) describes Tr...
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a deficit or problem-solving approa...
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right a...
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? ...
Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of Wallerst...
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law ...
Benjamin Meiches, "Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Both critical and mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as the...
Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical s...
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated...
Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the last few months of landmark Supreme Court decisions have showcased, Clarence Thomas is one of the most important men in America. To wrap up our...
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose t...
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contr...
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been as...
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mumbai), discuss their recently co-edited volume, India'...
Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Benjamin Studebaker about his new book The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) Ameri...
Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections" (Duke UP, 2023)
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections (Duke UP, 2023), Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in I...
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court recently wrapped up their term – and announced that they will hear a very controversial case about domestic abuse, the power of Co...
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Malaysia in need of electoral reform? How can we explain recent changes including the anti-party hopping law and the successful UNDI18 campaign...
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Duke University Press, 2022) Dr. Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweep...
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence tha...
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is natural law, and what does it have to do with originalism? Why does the Right defend religion yet so often struggle to define it? Next up in o...