New Books in Political Science
Episodes
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...
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent developments in the Middle East have raised concern about the potential for a wider regional war. What do escalating tensions in Gaza, Lebanon,...
Talking Thai Politics: Why Thai Politics isn’t All About China
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How far does geopolitics relate to domestic political leanings? Are politically progressive Thais more likely to be pro-US, and more politically conse...
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of coll...
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: f...
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictato...
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of...
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o...
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political min...
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential ...
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the stru...
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and ...
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 201...
Talking Thai Politics: Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the dreadful Tak Bai massacre, what are the prospects for a resolution of the long-standing insurgency in ...
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the mass...
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc...
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose ...
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path”...
Unpacking Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia with Dan Slater
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode focuses on a major issue of enduring importance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies: authoritarianism. Even today, vari...
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The essay "The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7" (Mosaic Magazine) by Shany Mor, dated October 7, 2024, examines the intellectual an...
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Matthew Ferrence about his book I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay (West Virginia UP, 2024). Wh...
Graham Brady, "Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers" (Ithaka, 2024)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brady provides an insider’s look at the power st...
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since Novemb...
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly ...
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A common argument to explain the ongoing global democratic crisis is that democracy has failed to deliver safe and prosperous lives for its citizens a...
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme...
Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are technocratic experts supporting populist politics? In The New Experts Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India (Cambridge...
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "subv...
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as Lat...
Talking Thai Politics: Prajak Kongkirati, Thailand: Contestation, Polarization and Democratic Regression (Cambridge 2024)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why has Thailand’s politics been so contested and so intensely polarized in recent decades? How can we account for the persistent democratic regress...
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of India in the Second Cold War (SCW) in South Asia? How do local histories, internal politics, and subnational dynamics shape relati...
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out...
Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Max Weber once remarked that bureaucracy’s power comes from its massing of expert and factual knowledges. It amasses this power, in part, by keeping...
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. ...
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic...
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sym...
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens ...
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power? In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in ...
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Dr. Paul DeHart, professor of Political Science at Texas State University and author of ...
Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings, "The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Fur...
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power ...
Jacques Bertrand, "Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Southeast Asia Program Publications/Cornell UP, 2022) asks why the ...
Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalism is a revolutionary situation of the last stage of pre-history, and the potential and possibility for freedom, or else it is just what Hegel...
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What skills and strategies enable civil society to be effective under authoritarian rule? Dr. Runya Qiaoan, assistant professor and senior researcher ...
How have Bureaucratic Politics Undermined Pakistan’s Prospects for Democracy?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, explanations of Pakistan’s politics and its failed democratic transition have focused on the role of the military and politicians. B...
Victor C. Shih, "Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the ...
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Dennis Unkovic to discuss his latest book, The Fragility of China (Encounter Books, 2024). Unk...
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are Clavis Aurea: a dynamic team constantly looking for ways to make the academic publishing industry grow and to promote groundbreaking academic ...
The UN and its Discreet Diplomacy in Peacemaking
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews Bertrand Ramcharan, former top UN diplomat and author of the recent book, Th...
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politici...
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s a free country.” Many of us recall saying that as children as we learned that we were American citizens who were endowed with certain righ...
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Brist...
Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migrat...
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mom...
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your lib...
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in...
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia ...
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republica...
Prabowo Subianto and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode focuses on Indonesia, the presidential election held in February 2024, and the impending inauguration of the winner of that election...
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typi...
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public life. Those who long for a Christian America c...