New Books in Political Science

Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's...

We Should Not Take the UN For Granted: A Discussion with Abiodun Williams

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In times where conflicts around the globe are an everyday topic, the place of the United Nations in resolving these conflicts is constantly being ques...

Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amoun...

All About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Election campaigns are becoming ever more expensive, with many parties and candidates spending large sums of money on advertising, campaign materials,...

South Africa Goes to the Polls

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On May 29, South Africans voted in the seventh election since the end of political apartheid in the early 1990s. This is the first election in which t...

Nisrin Elamin on the Conflict in Sudan

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belon...

Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democr...

Democratic Crisis in Senegal

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed the country’s presidential elections originally scheduled for February 25. It's part of a series of co...

Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is the concluding text in political theorist Eilee...

Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024)...

Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the r...

Marc C. Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it's easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbul...

Nicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl, "After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology" (Columbia UP, 2024)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure ...

Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monet...

Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do Asian nations exercise soft power in the Baltics? Soft power is a political strategy to influence other international relations actors by using...

Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening ...

Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld, "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton UP, 2024) traces the political history of American p...

Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the natur...

Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they ar...

The Climate Crisis as a Problem of Collective Action: A Discussion with Dana Fisher

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, Professor Dana Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and Professor in ...

Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilisat...

The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Development is political but what does that mean for how we solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today? A pathbreaking new book, The...

Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Kunal M. Parker explores the...

Lisa Langdon Koch, "Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs" (Oxford UP, 2023)

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapons. These paths have been difficult to predict and...

José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1974 the government of Jordan established a new ministry to oversee a nationwide scheme to buy and distribute subsidized flour and regulate bakerie...

Chris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Future of War Crimes Justice (Melville House, 2024), journalist and war correspondent Chris Stephen takes a colourful look at the erratic history...

Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on ...

M. Steven Fish, "Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge" (Rivertowns Books, 2024)

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Defeating the forces of authoritarianism is the political combat task of our age, and we must take it up with the certitude and boldness that our emin...

Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During an era of broad political dissatisfaction, what is the history and role of the Constitution? Does the Constitution still have the power to unit...

Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s book D...

Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes ...

What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other countries, helps us understand this important moment...

Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming caref...

South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do election campaigns in South Korea look like? Why have satellite parties become an important instrument of power politics? What do the election ...

Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world development in the past 30 years. But now the question is ...

Ian Johnson, "Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future" (Oxford UP, 2023)

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even as most contemporary states look to history in order to legitimize their existence in some way or other, the past – and narrations of it – ho...

David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de...

James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical ana...

Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram...

Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e...

Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor, "Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also...

The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Je...

J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censorsh...

Éric Fassin, "State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race: Illiberal France and Beyond" (CEU Press, 2024)

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Éric Fassin (Université Paris 8) to dis...

George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generatio...

David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drug...

Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z's song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," politicians have...

India Votes 2024

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is at stake at the 2024 Indian national elections? And, what can we expect if the incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi wins another five years ...

Boubacar N’Diaye, "Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization" (Routledge, 2017)

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Boubacar N’Diaye's book Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization (Routledge, 2017), the result of...

Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are ...

Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändl...

Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University) to di...

Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr...

Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is happening to the politics of race in America?  In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Roger...

Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis" (Brill, 2023)

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives...

Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana is a pioneering...

Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plutarch is one of history's most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hamilt...

Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre D...

D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nine...

Elliott Prasse-Freeman, "Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar" (Stanford UP, 2023)

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revol...

Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But...

Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Egor Lazarev explores the use ...

Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press,...

Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make ...

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophica...

Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enlightenment philosopher David Hume enjoyed a tremendous influence on intellectual history. What did Hume believe, why was it so controversial at the...

Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite expectations that the deeply held political and religious organizing principles at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood would prove incompatibl...

Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex ...

Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue ope...

Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Annika Schmeding’s new book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (Stanford UP, 2023) is a deeply sensitive and...

Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Marc Edelman...

Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why do great powers go to war? Why are non-violent, diplomatic options not prioritised? Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Po...

Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant...

Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in 1983 something changed....

Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to them by international law? How does the immunity en...

W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of “separation of powers” and “balances and checks,” it provides the deci...

Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic...

Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Yorba Linda and raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life, excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high sc...

Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey discusses the past and future of citizenship with David Jacobson, Professor of Soc...

Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"What happened in Hong Kong is not an anomaly but a warning" - Hong Kong Human Rights defender Chow Hang Tung, speech written from prison upon receivi...

Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contemporary politics is characterized by the rise (and fall) of many new parties. But what tools do political scientists have to map and measure elec...

Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era...

William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays th...

Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Global adoption of the Internet has exploded, yet we are only beginning to understand the Internet's profound political consequences. Authoritarian st...

William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics. Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential e...

Lisa A. Baglione, "Understanding Comparative Politics: An Inclusive Approach" (CQ Press, 2024)

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Research in political science shows that collections and textbooks often mention race, gender, ethnicity, and religion – but they don’t consiste...

George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the n...

Jeffrey A. Javed, "Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of vi...

Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Karl Widerquist's Universal Basic Income (MIT Press, 2024) is an accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash inco...

Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently, ho...

Kalika Mehta, "Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis" (Routledge, 2023)

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kalika Mehta's book Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis (Routledge, 2023) provides a ...

How to Be a Good Statesman: Johnny Burtka on Political Leadership from Xenophon to Churchill

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have a preponderance of books on leadership in business; yet, despite broad dissatisfaction with our political leaders, almost none on how to be a ...

Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times p...

Alina Nychyk, "Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015" (Ibidem Press, 2023)

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015 (Ibidem Press, 2023) investigates the making of...

Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to ...

Ali Bhagat, "Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism" (Cornell UP, 2024)

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell UP, 2024) answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed ...

Authoritarian Practices Go Well Beyond Authoritarian Regimes

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Authoritarianism is not something that happens only within the borders of authoritarian regimes. In this episode, Marlies Glasius talks with host Lici...

Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors (Temple UP, 2023) explores black women's experiences as mayors in Am...

Samantha Majic, "Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics" (U California Press, 2023)

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recent years have brought an upsurge in celebrity activism. Not a day goes by without an actor or musician taking to a stage, a podium or the internet...

Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life (University of Toronto Press, 2023) by Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly traces the politi...