New Books in Political Science

Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and The Collapse of the Iron Curtain (Norton, 2024) is a truly fascinating narrative—exploring a little-known event...

Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Power Structures in International Politics (Low 8, 2023) presents an original perspective on the dynamics underlying world events, approaching inter...

Adam Dean, "Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic gove...

Noah L. Nathan, "The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions wh...

Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is an ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism over the 20th century. In Imperial Material:...

Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Empires are one of the most common forms of political structure in history—yet no empire is alike. We have our “standard” view of empire: perhap...

Philip Giurlando and Daniel F. Wajner, "Populist Foreign Policy: Regional Perspectives of Populism in the International Scene" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The focus of the research on populism as a category of political analysis has mostly been on domestic politics and can be traced back to the 1960s. On...

Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Wolfson-Ford’s provocative new book, Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), is an i...

Leadership in Business, Leadership Abroad: A Conversation with Dave McCormick *96

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dave McCormick *96 has enjoyed incredible success in a wide variety of arenas: after graduating from West Point, where he competed as a varsity wrest...

Airports, Buses, Internet Cables, and the Local and National Politics in the Philippines

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What can airports, busses, and submarine internet cables tell us about the local and national politics in the Philippines? And how do they position th...

How Democracies Die . . . and How They May Survive with Daniel Ziblatt

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard...

Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50 percent of the global workforce, and yet scholarly understandings of informal workers’...

Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial r...

Christopher J. Devine, "I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters" (Columbia UP, 2023)

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all tho...

The Future of the Chinese Military: A Discussion with James A. Siebens

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For all the talk of China being a peaceful country with no aggressive intentions, it has behaved like most other rising powers – spending lots of mo...

Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One war, three collisions: Russia with Ukraine, Europe, and the US. On the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion, Michael Kimmage analyses th...

Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically un...

Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, ...

Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual...

Why is Right-Wing Extremism so Widespread in Italy?

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Marla Stone, a historian of Italian fascism at Occidental College, on ...

Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is more multili...

Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard, "The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations" (Oxford UP, 2023)

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Evaluation has become a key tool in assessing the performance of international organisations, in fostering learning, and in demonstrating accountabili...

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can territory and peoples be organized? After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturall...

The Future of Afghanistan: A Discussion with Kate Clark

17 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since the Taliban victory in 2021 there has been very little prospect of significant change in Afghanistan. There is no rival to the Taliban and ...

Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What happens if the geoeconomic risks of great power rivalry materialise? What can be done to prevent these potential dangers from unfolding in small ...

Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, wh...

Sarah El-Kazaz, "Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul" (Duke UP, 2023)

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (Duke UP, 2023), Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers i...

"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We begin this new season of International Horizons with an interview by RBI Director John Torpey with Neta Crawford from Oxford University and the Co...

James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis" (Russell Sage, 2021)

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality have been documented by social scientists – but the public conversation and scho...

Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of ...

Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate. All too often, how...

Daniel Druckman, "Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement" (Routledge, 2023)

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Containing research conducted and published over a half century, Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. D...

Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of gen...

David C. Young et al., "Policy Matters: Perspectives, Procedures, and Processes" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Never have policy initiatives been so important than in today’s society. Neoliberal manifestations, climate change, civil rights movements, and gove...

The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"An air of finality pervades today’s world." That is the opening sentence of Jonathan White’s book In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Ide...

Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority pop...

Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Among the Braves Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battles for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (Hachette, 2023) Shibani Mahtani and T...

Petra Alderman, "Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand" (Routledge, 2023)

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does nation-branding mean to you? For many listeners, the term probably conjures up ideas of catchy slogans and international tourism or trade p...

Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying inf...

The Conflict in Sudan

01 Feb 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...

Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to d...

Democracy in Malawai

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Ufahamu Africa, cohost Kim Yi Dionne presents on the state of democracy in Malawi as part of a panel at the 2023 African Studies As...

Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we...

Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant wo...

Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sideli...

Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mother...

On Authoritarianism: A Discussion with Author and Political Scientist Matthew C. MacWilliams

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly half of Americans “are inconsistent supporters of democracy and democratic institutions,” Matthew C. MacWilliams writes at the start of his...

Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Through two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Dr. Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which the evangelical church is...

Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots. The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health...

Elliot Short, "Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered to mark the official formation of a unified army; and yet, little over a decad...

Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a ‘working-class hero’. Facing down media pundits who thought they could wa...

Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture. In Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Maki...

Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, government agencies around the world have been forced to consider the role of competition law and policy in addressing various crise...

Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark “Zak” Taylor, a political scientist at Georgia Tech University, has a new book that explores the presidents of the Gilded Age, from Ulysses G...

Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental ...

Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kareem Muhammad has a new book that focuses on the role of Black voters in the United States – specifically in their power as participants in de...

On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“How has it come to this? How has ‘Zionist’…become the dirtiest word to the international Left?” Susie Linfield poses that ripe question at ...

Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford UP, 2022), Guido Parietti proposes a more proper definition of power--as the ...

Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientists Patricia Strach (The University at Albany, State University of New York) and Kathleen S. Sullivan (Ohio University) have written ...

Democracy, Great Powers, and the Russia-Ukraine War. A Discussion with Stefan Wolff

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How helpful is the democracy-authoritarianism binary when it comes to our understanding of contemporary conflict? What is the state of the Russia-Ukra...

Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, s...

The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In A United Ireland: Why Unification in Inevitable and How It Will Come About (Biteback Publishing, 2017), Kevin Meagher argues that a reasoned, pr...

Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st centur...

Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended ...

Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis and civilians from at least 25 other countr...

Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime (Basic Books, 2023), political historian Dr. Sam Lebovic uncovers th...

Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (Picador, 2023), Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life,...

Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, fro...

Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The contemporary world is beset with a wide variety of conflicts, all of which have features without historical precedent. While most accounts of peac...

Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientist Steven Rogers’ new book focuses on the deceptively complex question of how it is that voters do or don’t/can and can’t hold ...

Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

06 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite its extraordinary diversity, life in the People’s Republic of China is all too often viewed mainly through the lens of politics, with dynami...

Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson...

120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on our Violent Majorities conversations about In...

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial underst...

Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge U...

Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do resea...

Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars Stephen Engel and Timothy Lyle have a new book that dives into the thinking around power, political and cultural progress, and the LGBTQ+ com...

Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How are Roman political assumptions similar to versus different from our own? What did the Founding Fathers get right and wrong about the Ancients? Ho...

Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Adam Mestyan (Duke Uni...

Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memor...

Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Ele...

James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global...

David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, le...

Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worke...

The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Immigration has become one of the biggest issues in all western democracies. And the debate is so charged it's hard to know who to believe. Which is w...

Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nat...

Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does astrology, palm-reading and fortune telling have to do with politics in Thailand, and how can we make sense of these divination practices an...

Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale...

Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) - as the only permanent international court that addresses crimes against humanity, genocide, and war ...

Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What (and why) can and can't we say? What do empirical examples both at home and abroad tell us about how we should protect freedom of speech? How do ...

António Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

António Costa Pinto's book An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (Routle...

Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We often narrate the history of women’s rights in the United States by focusing on the fight for suffrage. Yet starting as early as 1835, states exp...

Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's Director John Torpey interviews Grzegorz Ekiert, Chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard...

Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2022) discusses the emergence of the judiciary as an assert...

Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, a...

Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

European governments are emerging from 15 years of on-again, off-again crises that upended their budgetary positions. From close to balance in 2008, t...

The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With increasing talk of de-dollarization and the Gulf attempts to get more influence in the IMF it’s a good time to talk about the world’s interna...

Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle Eastern...

Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in...

Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms (Routledge, 2021) by Dr. Troels Burchall Henningsen examines t...