New Books in Political Science
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Yong-Shik Lee, "Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia" (Anthem Press, 2023)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the long run, countries in Northeast Asia will have to see the need for collective defense. Otherwise, you won’t be able to stop rivalry between ...
José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy? This incisive book Yo...
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and ...
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could ne...
David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Globa...
Piotr Pietrzak, "Strengthening International Relations Through Transformative Theory and Practice" (Information Science Reference, 2025)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the world becomes more connected, strengthening international relations is essential for fostering global stability for economic and cultural growt...
In Search of Green China: Ma Tianjie on Pan Yue and the CCP’s “Ecological Civilization"
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A former journalist and environmental campaigner named Pan Yue rose through the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party, championing the concept of “ec...
Gianna Englert, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wi...
Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suggested additional channels: Political Science, National Security, American Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European Studies, New Books wi...
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi R Williams is associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. Their primary research interests include lab...
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals—and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.If there’s one thing most Ameri...
Tyler Jost, "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do states start conflicts that they ultimately lose? Why do leaders possess inaccurate expectations of their prospects for victory? Bureaucracies...
Joshua Eisenman and David H. Shinn, "China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing has increased ...
Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How and why did the Chinese Communist Party rise to power in the 1940s at the expense of its Nationalist (KMT) rival? In his new book, Domination and...
Delivering for Democracy – Why results matter
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The global wave of democratic backsliding has undermined the ascendancy of democracy in the twenty-first century. So what do democracies need to do to...
Emma Ashford, "First Among Equals: U. S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World" (Yale UP, 2025)
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A fresh, concise roadmap for U.S. grand strategy in a multipolar world For the past thirty years, post-Cold War triumphalism and a desire to reshape t...
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of Abraham Lincoln's staunchest and most effective allies, Judge David Davis masterminded the floor fight that gave Lincoln the presidential nomin...
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the last century, there has been an outsized incidence of conflict between democracies and personalist regimes—political systems ...
Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge UP, 2025) provides a fresh theory connecting wa...
Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A practical call to action against oppression. Across the globe, millions of people have participated in protests and marches, donated to political gr...
Michael Rowe, "Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researching Street-level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions (Routledge, 2024) is the first among a number of new titles in the R...
Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2025), Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state t...
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration i...
Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape (Bristol UP, 2025) explores how political actors draw on memories of ...
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born ...
Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early September 2025, Nepal witnessed an extraordinary week of upheaval that many now refer to as the ‘five-day revolution’. Within the span of...
Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Car...
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Bromell is the author of By the Sweat of the Brow: Labor and Literature in Antebellum American Culture and Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psyc...
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, Tim Weiner published the book Legacy of Ashes. It was a history of the CIA from its founding to the early 2000s. As a university student in ...
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—that it was male dominated a...
Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami, "Causal Inquiry in International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Causal Inquiry in International Relations (Oxford UP, 2024) by Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami defends a new, philosophically informed acc...
Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Jacobs (Colby College) and Sidney Milkis (University of Virginia) have a new book, Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils o...
Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their ...
Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths, "Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century" (Columbia UP, 2025)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s international system is made up of states: Territorial entities with defined borders, with exclusive control within those borders, diplomati...
George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, "New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries" (Agenda, 2024)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governa...
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global ...
When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When do limits on majorities enhance democratic rule, and when do they undermine it? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zibl...
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll see...
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 388 BCE, Plato, at the age of about forty and in the midst of writing The Republic, visited for the first time the then-Greek city state of Syrac...
Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era (Cornell UP, 2021) offers a new framework for understanding Russian nationa...
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” That s...
Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practice Most Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich...
Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement (Oxford UP, 2023) discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing l...
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin the new season of International Horizons by asking a crucial question: is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? RBI Deputy Director, Eli...
Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Poland between 2015 and 2023, Jarosław Kaczyński and his Law and Justice Party (PiS) attempted a novel experiment. Could a governing party sustai...
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of globalized education, where ideals of freedom and inquiry should thrive, an alarming trend has emerged: foreign authoritarian regimes inf...
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone feels it. Cultural and political life in America has become unrecognizable and strange. Firebrands and would-be sages have taken the place of...
Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An Arendt expert has arrived at Arendt-obsessed Recall This Book. Lyndsey Stonebridge discusses her widely praised 2024 We Are Free to Change the...
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Mat...
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective, political analysis, philosophy of...
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historians have well described how US immigration policy increasingly fell under the purview of federal law and national politics in the mid-to-late n...
Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often think of censorship as governments removing material or harshly punishing people who spread or access information. But Margaret E. Roberts’...
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought a tragic close to a thirty-year period of history that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and th...
Syria After Assad
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the prospects for democracy in Syria? Is this the right question to ask? What do we need to better understand about Syria’s new leader, its...
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford UP, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what...
Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Economic and Business History channel, I spoke with Dr. Victoria Basualdo and Dr. Marcelo Bucheli about their new edited book. ...
Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of the world's countries are experiencing a demographic revolution: dramatic, sustained, and likely irreversible population aging. S...
Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War's fateful conclusio...
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been written about political polarisation in the United States, but no one has examined it through the lens of recent U.S. history. There is ...
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolutio...
Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This deeply researched book offers new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state for...
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disag...
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all consid...
Vinay Lal, "Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times" (Oxford UP, 2025)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The anthology presents a diverse array of essays delving into Gandhi's political activities, ethical beliefs, and philosophical stance. Distinguished ...
Reid B. C. Pauly, "The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma" (Cornell UP, 2025)
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail only a third of the time. Dr. Pauly argues that coercion often fails becaus...
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023)
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist tradition...
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical term...
Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World (Cornell UP, 2025), Steve L. Monroe argues that geopolitics and socia...
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) returns ...
What Makes for Successful Civil Resistance?
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As authoritarian leaders attack democracy from all sides, and the rights of women, ethnic minorities and the LGTBQI+ community are increasingly threat...
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical term...
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Theological Metaphors of Marx (Duke UP, 2024) by Enrique Dussel – A Conversation with Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta In The Th...
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning au...
Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kevin Donovan argues that E...
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the ter...
Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a period of relative calm in congressional elections prior to 2006, America has experienced a series of highly competitive, volatile national el...
Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The African Union's threat to lead African states' mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court in 2008 marked just one of many encounters th...
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary histo...
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is o...
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy a...
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the...
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latino...
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying the...
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Globalization is over. With US president Donald Trump pursuing an 'America First' agenda in trade and foreign policy, everyone now recognises the urge...
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suruchi Mazumdar’s book addresses the complex relationship between India’s evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interest...
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic compe...
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Murad Idris, a political theorist in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, explores the concept of peace, the term ...
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is ...
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Hea...
Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell UP, 2020), Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the...
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and ...
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sitting Democratic president who chooses not to run for re-election, a vice president running out of the president’s shadow, and a Republican nomi...
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over pe...
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a “leading theory: There are no giants in...
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth exa...
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of ...
David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Notre Dame University Political Scientists Dave Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht have a new book that focuses on the impression that female candidates...
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (Bristol University Press, 2021), Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victi...
Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesia's judicial system has long been described as dysfunctional. Many of its problems developed out of decades of authoritarian rule, which began...
Kampung Activism in Indonesia
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My village, my kampung. The term kampung is a Malay word, referring to a "village hamlet" or "urban informal settlement." As rapid urbanization takes ...