New Books in Political Science
Episodes
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 ...
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious chan...
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wargaming renaissance has been underway in the US military. Having proven to be the most effective recruitment tool of the 21st century, games have ...
On Bullshit in Politics
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our guest is Michael Patrick Lynch, Provost Professo...
Ignacio G. Galán, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design ...
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, alread...
Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive institu...
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two juxtaposed years frame the subject matter of Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile. In one, 1973, General Augusto Pinoch...
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m thrilled to announce a new partnership with Genocide Studies International. GSI is one of the preeminent journals in the field of Genocid...
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does the 'rule of law' really mean in China? How does it shape the country’s politics, both at home and on the world stage? And why should it m...
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast I sat down with Dr Doina Anca Cretu to talk about her first book, Foreign Aid and State Building i...
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford Universi...
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Angela K. Lewis-Maddox has pulled together an important and useful edited volume focusing on black women political scientists and ...
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again, but actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become G...
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation Bristol UP, 2022) By Timothy Stacey In the wake of populism, Timothy Sta...
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surve...
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights are among our most pressing issues today. But rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human ...
Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About the Book Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political co...
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores the under-appreciated div...
How do Small States Navigate and Shape the Liberal World Order? A conversation with Dylan Loh
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Globally, the liberal international order has been under pressure for quite some time, but we often tend to discuss this in relation to big internatio...
Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is conte...
The May 2025 Mid-Term Elections in the Philippines
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode focuses on the mid-term elections in the Philippines which were held in May of this year, including all local elected positions, all...
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole F. Watts's Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan (NYU Press, 2025) is a harrowin...
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m thrilled to launch a brand new series for the Princeton UP Ideas Podcast. 20 years ago, Princeton University Press published a short volum...
Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2024), Dr. Lieba Faier examines why contemporary ...
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode, hosted by Kikee Doma Bhutia from the University of Tartu, features Nitasha Kaul, Professor of Politics, International Relations,...
Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary fourt...
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders (Indiana UP, 2023)explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of in...
Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Research shows that repression can lead to both radicalization and deradicalization. When does it drive groups to pick up arms, and under what conditi...
Marlene Laruelle, "Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime" (Stanford UP, 2025)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the ...
Ethnic minorities are good for democracy – Here is why
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy scholars often assume that ethnic homogeneity is good for democracy. Politically mobilised ethnic minorities, the assumption goes, stoke div...
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable,...
Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi" (Hurst, 2020)
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left th...
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Brian Blankenship comes back to the New Books Network to talk about what his book, The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Al...
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mento...
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode is hosted by Toomas Hanso International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) who is talking to Urmas Hõbepappel. Urmas is an...
Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) links two seminal moments in Egypt’s history – the Revolutio...
Jeremy Morris, "Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want ...
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Licia Cianetti talks to Johannes Gerschewski about his book The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule (Cambridge UP, 2023). We discuss how...
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What part should politics play in our everyday lives? In How to Think About Politics: A Guide in Five Parts (Oxford University Press, 2025) Peter A...
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) analyzes the roots of widesprea...
Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyon...
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants n...
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned a...
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years. None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the de...
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to find hope in these times? I spoke with political scientist Loren Goldman about the principle of political hope: why we should have hope, how to...
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amit Ron and Abraham Singer, both political theorists, examine the concept of the responsibilities that private companies and corporations have in a d...
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When did the West lose its way? In 1889, when the US government carved five states out of the spawling Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and ...
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes ...
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and co-host of the great podcast,...
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? Liberty as Independence: The Making a...
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a multipolar world where America wields less relative power, the United States can no longer get away with poor statecraft. To understand how the U...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Given what has happened since – from a global pandemic to wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – events in Hong Kong in 2019-20 can seem ...
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones explore the mounting political and financial pressures confronting higher education on both sides of the ...
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds. Leftists have long taught that peopl...
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political theorist Lori Marso has been intrigued by filmmaker Chantal Ackerman for many years and has integrated Ackerman’s work into her courses at...
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, Michael McConnell examines the gap between the Founders’ vision of a limited presidency and today’s expansi...
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which go...
Postscript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Poli...
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass ...
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's Conservative Party is one of the oldest and most successful political parties in history. Local elections in the UK have signalled that they...
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America (Princeton University Press, 2025), Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in w...
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press 2024), Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, po...
What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The argument that authoritarian governments are better at dealing with the climate emergency is gaining ground, fuelled by the idea that undemocratic ...
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, and for the past several years, many people both here and abroad have been trying to make sense of the radical right and its financial and ideo...
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Universities are under attack, but what exactly are the threats? How does free speech in the last 10 years compare to today? What do we stand to lose ...
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the political scientists at Bright Line Watch released their 25th report on the s...
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we focus on the often-overlooked geographies of Eurasian connectivity with Dr. Wojciech Kębłowski, whose research brings attention...
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of globalization, international communication constantly takes place across borders, defying sovereign control as it influences opinion. Whi...
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this edition of Ctrl Alt Deceit: Democracy in Danger, we are live at the Royal United Services Institute. Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones a...
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of election...
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of em...
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode that features a conversation between Sonia Bussu and Hans Asenbaum on democracy, capitalism, climate and the practices and p...
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since American president Donald Trump was elected to a second term, it is common to hear citizens, journalists, and public officials distinguish betwe...
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any one institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rates ar...
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Territorial expansion is typically understood as a centrally driven and often strategic activity. But Nicholas D. Anderson’s new book, Inadvertent ...
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are young men leaning right while young women shift left? Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones speak with NYU’s Scott Galloway, politica...
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein, co-authors of The Assault on the...
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to repr...
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. Bu...
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this pos...
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c...
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the E...
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones analyze the global fallout after Donald Trump plunged America and the world into a trade war with China. ...
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023), political scientist Marcus Kreuzer synthesises the dif...
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After being sworn in as the 47th president, President Donald Trump quickly altered American government – and political discourse. He issued a slew o...
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) has a fascinating new book, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Pr...
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Uni...
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own histor...
Is Democracy and Peace Possible in Myanmar? A Conversation with Claire Smith
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the civil conflict in Myanmar passes its fourth anniversary, is this ethnically complex country any closer to a peaceful resolution of its internal...
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the Frontline Club in London, Ctrl Alt Deceit is back for its second season. Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones host a fascinati...
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Im...
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experience...
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy, argues David Wiles, is actually a form of theatre. In making his case, the author deftly investigates orators at the foundational moments o...
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Muriel Blaive to talk about her new book with CEU Press, Pandemic Power: The Covid Re...
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality tha...