New Books in Political Science

Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American political scientist and administrative director of ...

Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds, "Understanding Maritime Security" (Oxford UP, 2024)

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the South China Sea, the oceans are of increasing importance in international securi...

Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Americ...

Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociologic...

Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this str...

Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Univ. of Ottawa) has written a wonderful book. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide ...

The Democrats Have a Party: DNC2024

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination in Chicago. Lilly and Susan talk to two presidential politics s...

Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty...

Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peop...

Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the str...

Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his...

Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who is in charge? In The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparati...

Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India (Cambridge UP, 2023) delves into the period between...

Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovativ...

Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and ...

Justine Bendel, "Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure Before International Courts and Tribunals" (Edward Elgar, 2023)

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure Before International Courts and Tribunals (Edward Elgar, 2023), Dr Justine Bendel scrutinises h...

Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it’...

Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled p...

Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do micro-interactions of resistance, fighting and dialogue shape larger patterns of peace and conflict? How can nonviolent resistance, conflict tr...

Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has change...

Heath Brown, "Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2024)

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientist Heath Brown’s new book, Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency (UP of Kansas, 2024), examines the preside...

Democracy Promotion, Progressive Realism and the Labour Government’s Policy Towards Asia

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does the Labour Party’s 2024 election victory spell the end of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy interest in Asia? And how will its ‘progressi...

Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extorti...

James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Wash...

Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the draft majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health was leaked, the media, public officials, and scholars focused on the overturning...

Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly...

Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African count...

How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host LSE Southeast Asia Centre Director John Sidel speaks with Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany and a le...

Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The...

Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year, many countries around the world, including most of the world's most populous democracies, have consequential nation-wide elections. In many...

Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his...

Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the “dragonbear”? It is a metophor of an emerging strategic alliance between Russia and China. In this episdoe, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to...

Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation electi...

Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religi...

Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our ...

Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of wea...

Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, M...

Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a be...

Oliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, jus...

On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr Qingfei Yin, SEAC Associate and Assistant Professor of International History at LSE. Dr Q...

Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—coopera...

Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustr...

Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising play...

Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or...

Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Republican Party held its nominating convention a week ago in Milwaukee, formally nominating former President Donald Trump as the standard-bearer ...

Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed ...

Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary...

Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a...

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Has fascism arrived in America?  In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered ex...

Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori...

Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009)

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You could fill a large library with books about JFK’s assassination. We’ve even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power fr...

Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an...

Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline ...

Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rat...

Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Pr...

Mark L. Haas, "Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally" (Cornell UP, 2022)

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing ...

Zana Gulmohamad, "The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How is foreign policy made in Iraq? Based on dozens of interviews with senior officials and politicians, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Politi...

Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Watching the footage of the January 6 insurrection, Professor Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left evangelicalism, would I have been there? Toda...

Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material rese...

Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right (U Chicago Press, 2024) is a fascinating and engaging historical tour of those who were gay and a...

Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proce...

Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century (PublicAffairs, 2024), Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garret...

Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy...

Postscript: Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Pres...

Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about polit...

Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of the...

Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman,...

Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental probl...

The Democratic Regression: The Political Causes of Authoritarian Populism

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why are so many democracies experiencing the rise of authoritarian populism? And what can we do to address this? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Arm...

Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new bo...

Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing...

Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shuchi Kapila, Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) Dr. Shuchi Kapila, Professor of English at Gri...

Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first presidential debate will be held on June 27th, 2024 and the Republicans are heading to Milwaukee (a city Donald Trump recently called “hor...

Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From his overwhelming embrace by evangelicals and other people of faith to his championing of policies and conservative judicial candidates long sough...

Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings h...

Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our occasional series, Postscript, we focus on the Supreme Court’s recently published decisions in two cases, about guns and abo...

Politics in Action 2024: Indonesia Update

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, M...

Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth...

Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States marked, for many, a return to "compassionate politics." Joe Biden had run on a platform of empathy...

John Keane and Baogang He, "China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), authors Dr. John Keane and Dr. B...

Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

States are holding primaries. The Democrats and Republicans will convene in July and August but it has already been decided that the presidential race...

David Criekemans, "Geopolitics and International Relations: Grounding World Politics Anew" (Brill, 2021)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although we live in a globalised world, territorially embedded factors are highly relevant in such domains as security, economy, energy, environment, ...

Meredith Weiss et al., "Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, ...

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren L...

Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate ...

Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambr...

The Complexities of the EU Parliament Elections

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey spoke with Francesco Ronchi and Udo Zolleis, two European Parliament officials and...

Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. ...

Branding Foreign Aid: Soft Power and Popular Attitudes in International Development

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why do international donors brand foreign aid? And what impact does it have on popular attitudes towards them? Join Matthew Winters and Petra Alderman...

What and Why are Political Beliefs? A Conversation with Oliver Traldi

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are political beliefs and how do we form them? Oliver Traldi, a current John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison P...

Robert G. Boatright, "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Until 1900, most political parties in the United States chose their leaders – either in back rooms with a few party elites making decisions or in co...

Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing centre have flipped from blue t...

Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ibrahim Fraihat’s latest book, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) is much more than an exploration ...

Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba...

Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to ...

Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonisation and decolonization processes have had a prof...