New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Ian G. Baird, "Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the creation of the European colonial states in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia had hundreds of royal families, large and small. Today, ...
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the r...
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism-...
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part of what makes the challenges that collectively are called the “environmental crisis” so difficult is that the vocabulary we deploy in thinkin...
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, ...
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2...
Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War (Cornell University Press, 2025), Dr. Philip A. ...
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In...
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces ...
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Aure Schrock, an interdisciplinary technology scholar and writing coach and editor at Indelible Voice, a...
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration h...
Ting Guo, "Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has 愛 ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generatio...
Marion Laurence, "Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Impartiality is a guiding principle in United Nations peace operations that has helped legitimize multilateral intervention in dozens of armed conflic...
TrumpWorld: Canada, South Africa, Germany, and the Global Far-Right
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, John Torpey talks with Heribert Adam, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Vancou...
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deeply considered examination of the “common good” reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophy. The Second Vatican ...
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as ...
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear defin...
Aidan McGarry, "Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups" (Oxford UP, 2024)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups (Oxford UP, 2024), Aidan McGarry examines the agency of marginalised people, emphasi...
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Americans increasingly depend upon their phones, computers, and internet resources, their actions are less private than they believe. Data is routi...
Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For three decades, Kenneth Roth led Human Rights Watch, transforming it from a small advocacy group into one of the most influential human rights o...
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientists Lauren C. Bell, Allison Rank, and Carah Ong Whaley have a new edited volume, Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an E...
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From being a fringe political party in 2013 to sweeping nearly half of the state s forty-two Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the BJP has gained ground in Wes...
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's histo...
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control ...
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (OR Books, 2024) pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable a...
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role ...
William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recognized for his work on philosophy, religion and politics, Dr. Sweet talks at length about Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and P...
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in...
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international system ...
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Powe...
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edit...
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex...
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2024) challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing sch...
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury 2024) argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift fro...
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes o...
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Davide Panagia (UCLA) has two new books out focusing on the broader themes and ideas of film, aesthetics, and political theory. Se...
We Are Free to Change the World: A Conversation on Hannah Arendt with Lyndsay Stonebridge
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Lindsay Stonebridge, author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in ...
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why Cicero Matters (Bloomsbury, 2023) shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a ne...
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at R...
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in ...
Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) explores practical manifestations of sovereignty fro...
Adam Chapnick, "Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy (Oxford UP, ...
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across th...
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Year 2008 marked the introduction of a new economic governance regime in the European Union (EU) in response to the global financial crisis. Politici...
Talking Thai Politics: Chanintorn Pensute, The Cost of Politics in Thailand
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much does it cost to become an MP in Thailand? Is entering parliamentary politics prohibitively expensive for ordinary people? Has the rise of the...
Shimon Shetreet, "Judicial Independence: Cornerstone of Democracy" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Shimon Shetreet, Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University and a former politician. We are...
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, ab...
Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain a...
Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we are privileged to join a profound conversation between Robert P. George and Cornel West, two toweri...
Christina L. Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations" (Princeton UP, 2023)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs: The ...
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Professors Jordan T. Cash and Kevin J. Burns to discuss their recently published book, Congressional Deliberation: ...
Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in mode...
Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist B.J. (Bernard J.) Dobski has a new book focusing on Mark Twain’s final published novel, Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc. As ...
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge, 2024), McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretchi...
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic valu...
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction ...
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019),Benjamin Meiches takes a novel approach to the study of...
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 2020) traces the role of human rights concerns in US fore...
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Le...
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In N...
Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Various kind of philosophical considerations have been offered in favor of democracy. By some accounts, democracy realizes some intrinsic value, such ...
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the country. They make up the largest plurality of residents in the most populous st...
Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of de...
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the Indo-Pacific become the pre-eminent theatre of global geo-strategic and geo-economic competition? What is the interest and role of differe...
Enze Han, "The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2024)
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many studies of China's relations with and influence on Southeast Asia tend to focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional i...
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, th...
Amélie Barras, "Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations" (Stanford UP, 2024)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations (Stanford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Amélie Barras explores why and how C...
Transatlantic Tensions: Trump’s Return and Europe’s Far-Right Resurgence
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews journalist Mattia Ferraresi about the implications of a potential seco...
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Pro...
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. Over time, he has reduced his consumption and contribution to lan...
Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2024), Kevin D. Pham introduces Vietnamese political thought to deba...
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions a...
Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024)
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Victim participation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has routinely been viewed as an empty promise of justice or mere spectacle for audience...
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
American democracy is in trouble. At the heart of the contemporary crisis is a mismatch between America's Constitution and today's nationalized, parti...
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation "Jewish" amount...
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the press focused on what the press repeatedly characterized as an “ugly” fight between American college football players that broke ou...
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current st...
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many--a safety valve designed to pro...
How to Tackle Political Violence
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, France, and Germany, political violence has been rising. This is particularly troubling as we lack compelling explanations for w...
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The balance of power between the United States Congress and the president is particularly contested when it comes to war powers. The U.S. Constitution...
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala" (Routledge, 2024)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala (Routledge, 2024) engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hind...
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (W.W. Norto...
Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For man...
David Cowan, "Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? ...
Talking Thai Politics: Pornchai Witayalerdpan – What’s Up with the Thai Senate?
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How exactly were Thailand’s new slate of 200 Senators selected? What is it like to be an independent member of the Senate, when the chamber is now d...
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism, ...
Stanislava P. Mladenova, "When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil-Military Engagement in Fragile States" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Non-governmental organisations and militaries are notorious for their difficult relationship. The military is mostly understood through the prism of i...
Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being exclu...
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Tho...
Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, people around the world focus on an American president who calls for the imprisonment of critics, spreads the culture of white supremacy, and...
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into i...
How Are Southeast Asia’s Toxic Alliances Undermining the Region’s Prospects for Democracy?
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are dubious power-sharing deals on the rise across Southeast Asia? What effects do they have on the region’s prospects for democracy? And are th...
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kitty Calavita, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, discuss the historical conte...
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientists Dan Mallinson and Lee Hannah, both experts on state-level politics and the policy making process, have a new book that focuses on...
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Nick Butler explores humour's complex and often controversial role in shaping modern political discourse, examining how jokes can ch...
Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instituti...
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play professi...
Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the ...
Public Healthcare Under Decentralized Governance in Indonesia and the Philippines
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode focuses on the policy challenges and politics of public healthcare in Southeast Asia, a topic which has become increasingly visible ...
Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technosci...