New Books in Political Science

Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The origins and nature of nationhood and nationalism continue to be topics of heated scholarly debate. This major new reference work with contribution...

Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liberal democracies don’t age gracefully. Established systems of governance like those of the UK and the US which once served as blueprints are toda...

Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumor...

Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Of all interstate conflicts across the last two centuries, two-thirds have ended through negotiated agreement. Wartime diplomacy is thus commonly seen...

Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why do nations actively publicize previously overlooked disputes? And why does this domestic mobilization sometimes fail to result in aggressive polic...

Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What explains the growing divide between elites and the broader public in democracies across Europe and the United States? In this episode of Internat...

Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The debate about the impact of colonialism on the prospects for democracy and development continues to rage. Was the legacy of colonialism equally des...

We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does occupation reliably predict political leanings? What is social capitalism, and how does it span income classes? If social capitalists are sin...

Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students at...

Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series, a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (...

Postscript: History, Narratives, and Political Power--An Emergency Oral History Project

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Donald Trump has threatened the federal funding and jobs of institutions and individuals that document, archive, and analyze historical mate...

Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (Uni...

Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though...

Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor sits down with Marc Owen Jones, associate professor at Northwestern University in Qata...

Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most people think about abortion in the context of the country they live in. In the U.S., abortion fuels debate, elections, and legislation. In China,...

Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, Kenneth Roth, former longtime executive director of Human Rights Watch, joins RBI director John Torpey to d...

Madhavi Devasher, "Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation" (Routledge, 2024)

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation (Routledge, 2024) explains why, how, and where ethnic pol...

Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The executive directors of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of h...

Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“One thing I would note about the Trumpian populists and their counterparts elsewhere in the West today is that they're a very peculiarly tribal kin...

Gerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rule of law faces serious threats to its viability in many countries. It has become a recurring topic in the media and is affecting our daily lives. T...

Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even before its rebirth as a nation in the 1990s, Serbia had acquired a reputation abroad as Russia’s stalwart Slavic ally in the Western Balkans. Y...

In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeto...

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts have edited a new collection of essays, Creolizing Hannah Arendt. This edited volume dives into Hannah Arendt’...

Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The P...

Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be a...

Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Investigative reporter Bob Woodward once noted that assassination was the Scarlett letter of American politics because targeted killings challenge the...

Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries armed with nuclear weapons, this volume puts the sp...

Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system,...

Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On January 20th, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to t...

Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s rec...

In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton...

"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing he...

Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After the murder of George Floyd, the United States had the largest protests in the nation’s history. Other public and private responses included co...

Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, rural sociologist Dr. Irna Hofman explores how Tajikistan’s cotton fields illuminate shifting power dynamics in Central Asia, histo...

Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma...

Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Brazil moves toward trying former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup against democracy, the United States grapples with constitutional ch...

Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within poli...

Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other s...

Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is ...

John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first mono...

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...