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The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout

34 mins; April 02, 2026

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 30, 2026

Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)

65 hours 5 mins; March 28, 2026

Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

29 mins; March 28, 2026

Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)

28 mins; March 27, 2026

Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)

34 mins; March 26, 2026

Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)

49 mins; March 26, 2026

How Authoritarians Exploit Gender

22 mins; March 25, 2026

On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis

34 mins; March 25, 2026

Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

28 mins; March 24, 2026

Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)

49 mins; March 22, 2026

A Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 V-Dem Report

43 mins; March 22, 2026

Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

56 mins; March 21, 2026

Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)

70 hours 10 mins; March 20, 2026

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

73 hours 39 mins; March 20, 2026

Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape

42 mins; March 18, 2026

Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

60 hours 4 mins; March 17, 2026

Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)

80 hours 30 mins; March 15, 2026

Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

67 hours 36 mins; March 14, 2026

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

40 mins; March 14, 2026

Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)

35 mins; March 12, 2026

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

41 mins; March 12, 2026

Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 11, 2026

Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

54 mins; March 10, 2026

Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections

68 hours 37 mins; March 10, 2026

Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

42 mins; March 07, 2026

The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right

56 mins; March 07, 2026

Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)

53 mins; March 04, 2026

Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

44 mins; March 02, 2026

Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)

27 mins; March 02, 2026

Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)

59 mins; March 01, 2026

Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived

40 mins; February 25, 2026

Thailand’s February 2026 Snap Election: A Conversation with Prof Duncan McCargo

45 mins; February 20, 2026

Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)

58 mins; February 19, 2026

Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

44 mins; February 19, 2026

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

51 mins; February 19, 2026

Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

82 hours 23 mins; February 17, 2026

Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law

64 hours 18 mins; February 17, 2026

How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions

33 mins; February 16, 2026

Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

46 mins; February 16, 2026

India’s Democratic Republic in Flux

44 mins; February 15, 2026

Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)

64 hours 16 mins; February 15, 2026

Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982

69 hours 24 mins; February 15, 2026

Competing Visions for International Order

28 mins; February 13, 2026

Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)

43 mins; February 12, 2026

Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

72 hours 21 mins; February 11, 2026

Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

58 mins; February 11, 2026

Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)

45 mins; February 10, 2026

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)

56 mins; February 09, 2026

Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; February 07, 2026

Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)

38 mins; February 07, 2026

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)

60 hours 48 mins; February 04, 2026

Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)

55 mins; February 04, 2026

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

85 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2026

Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

63 hours 36 mins; February 02, 2026

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; January 31, 2026

Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

35 mins; January 31, 2026

Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)

59 mins; January 28, 2026

Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Democracy and Its Inter-Connections

54 mins; January 22, 2026

Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)

83 hours 6 mins; January 21, 2026

Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

85 hours 30 mins; January 19, 2026

A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)

55 mins; January 17, 2026

Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

42 mins; January 15, 2026

Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

75 hours 6 mins; January 14, 2026

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)

57 mins; January 14, 2026

Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)

51 mins; January 13, 2026

Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West" (Hachette UK, 2025)

56 mins; January 12, 2026

David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)

75 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2026

Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)

45 mins; January 09, 2026

Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)

57 mins; January 08, 2026

Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

41 mins; January 08, 2026

Dylan Loh, "China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy" (Stanford UP, 2025)

34 mins; January 07, 2026

What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?

85 hours 32 mins; January 05, 2026

Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)

42 mins; January 05, 2026

James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)

74 hours 23 mins; January 04, 2026

Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; December 31, 2025

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

53 mins; December 31, 2025

Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

55 mins; December 30, 2025

Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)

35 mins; December 30, 2025

Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 26, 2025

Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)

29 mins; December 26, 2025

Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)

40 mins; December 26, 2025

Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)

42 mins; December 24, 2025

Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French

48 mins; December 20, 2025

Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)

80 hours 52 mins; December 18, 2025

Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)

35 mins; December 17, 2025

Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; December 14, 2025

Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)

42 mins; December 12, 2025

Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

53 mins; December 11, 2025

Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

62 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025

The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

53 mins; December 07, 2025

Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

47 mins; December 03, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 02, 2025

Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)

49 mins; December 02, 2025

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; December 01, 2025

Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)

69 hours 23 mins; November 29, 2025

Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)

53 mins; November 27, 2025

Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

45 mins; November 26, 2025

Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)

52 mins; November 25, 2025

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