New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet inste...
Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Populist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers ...
Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years. Whether reports have focused...
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, Senegal faced a severe constitutional and electoral crisis. The presidential vote was postponed, tensions escalated, and fears of democratic ...
Thailand’s February 2026 Snap Election: A Conversation with Prof Duncan McCargo
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode unpacks the 8 February 2026 snap election and constitutional referendum in Thailand. The results paint a mixed picture: a decisive win fo...
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing t...
Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that ...
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age The University of Chicago Press, 2024 Kenneth Lowande Political Scientist ...
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
International law scholars are often among the sharpest critics of the Trump administration—but what if the usual story misses something essential? ...
Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), Lisa Björkman invites our attention to political form and how ...
How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape h...
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gr...
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode from the Vault, we revisit Nadine Gordimer’s James Lecture on the political landscape of South Africa, presented at the New Yor...
Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections (Routledge, 2026) assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 1...
India’s Democratic Republic in Flux
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Democracy Dialogues, co-host Maya Tudor speaks with Yogendra Yadav – political thinker, activist, and one of India’s most promi...
Competing Visions for International Order
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are we living in an era of competing international orders? A new book, entitled Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Di...
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admini...
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Camb...
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Off...
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explo...
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb...
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this tr...
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lind...
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for...
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officia...
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles...
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro...
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This book examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, ...
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is the first full-length work on a seminal figure in the settlement house movement, which ...
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Co...
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, a...
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity (Vernon Press, 2026) a forthcoming 2026 book by Yunus Emre Ozigci, offers a d...
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Duncan Kelly is a new intellectu...
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state a...
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Michael Illuzzi has a fascinating new book on peoplehood in the United States, focusing on different political actors at different...
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2026) explores the work of Puerto Rican musical superstar Bad Bu...
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Mori...
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Though the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Ol...
Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West" (Hachette UK, 2025)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—e...
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)
10 Jan 2026
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 ...
Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth centuryA popular truism derive...
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated ...
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mary E. Stuckey, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, has a brilliant new book that dive...
Dylan Loh, "China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy" (Stanford UP, 2025)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How has China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed itself into one of the most assertive diplomatic actors on the global stage? What explains t...
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director (acting) Eli Karetny speaks with philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre about liberalism not merely...
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observatio...
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
04 Jan 2026
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...
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
31 Dec 2025
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...
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup? In thi...
Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nucl...
Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Post-liberalism is all the rage on the American right, finding a common cause between legal theorists like Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen and risi...
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypas...
Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores what China’s subnational climate experiments tell us about the possibilities and limits of climate leadership in an era of int...
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-sellin...
Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas...
Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton U...
Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy (Temple UP, 2025) by Dr. Mirya Holman explicates the purpose, role, and ...
Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberalism may feel as though it has been around forever - as the "dominant ideology of the modern west" - but not even its advocates and detractors c...
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a complex and important analysis of the Ameri...
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford UP, 2020), Peace A. Medie studies the domestic impl...
The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democracy Dialogues, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Riedl and Esam Boraey speak with Susan C. Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Se...
Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinia...
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard UP, 2023) is a rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose meas...
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his g...
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a majo...
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conservatism needs to be rediscovered. That is, it needs to be differentiated from the post WWII concept of liberal democracy and return to its tradit...
Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marquette University Political Scientist Phil Rocco has a new book focusing on the 2020 U.S. Census and how the states, localities, and federal govern...
Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the J...
Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) t...
Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we feature an episode with Dr. Alvaro Salas-Castro, President and CEO of the Reynolds Foundation, and Founder and Chairman of the Democracy...
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provo...
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, whereas others go on to establish durable rule? Marshalling original data on counterr...
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript of the interview Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and str...
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John's “Arendt's Refugee Politics” came out in Public Books in early November. He made the case that his favorite political philosopher, Hanna...
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over th...
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the convent...
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus ...
Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential bur...
Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be ...
Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the African Union was founded in 2002, it promised to deliver a more united, prosperous, and people-centred continent. Two decades later, Africa’...
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relations...
E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The protection and restoration of cultural heritage is essential, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones. Armed conflicts frequently result in...
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and su...
What Democracy Does… and Does Not Do
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democratic Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl welcomes Maya Tudor, Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of ...
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922–1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to...
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientists Jack Greenberg (Yale University) and John Dearborn (Vanderbilt University) have a new book that focuses on the idea of presidenti...
Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A series of market-related crises over the past two decades – financial, environmental, health, education, poverty – reinvigorated the debate abou...
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the ef...
Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with liberal norms and procedures? The so-ca...
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the ...
Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world? In The Politics of World Heritage (Oxford...
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast from Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy Center on Global Democracy About the Podcast Each week, co-hosts Rachel Beatty ...
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic ...
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I sit down with Kate Epstein, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, as she details her research on the inter...
Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx by Michael Lazarus Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a w...
Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and leader of the Centre for South Asian Democracy. M. Sud...
Taru Salmenkari, "Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the boundaries, fringes, and inner workings of civil society, Taru Salmenkari investigates local forms of political agency in China in light...
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew D. Nelsen, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, has a new book out that focuses on the content of civic edu...
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing democracy. We still get to decide how.AI’s impact on democracy will go far beyond headline-grabbing political deepfakes and automated...
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings ...