New Books in Political Science
Episodes
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...
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...