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What Makes for Successful Civil Resistance?
37 mins; August 18, 2025
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
51 mins; August 17, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo PĂ©rez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
55 mins; August 15, 2025
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 14, 2025
Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
62 hours 3 mins; August 13, 2025
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
94 hours 3 mins; August 12, 2025
Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
22 mins; August 11, 2025
Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
115 hours 57 mins; August 10, 2025
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 09, 2025
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
78 hours 25 mins; August 06, 2025
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 05, 2025
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
75 hours 17 mins; August 05, 2025
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
53 mins; August 04, 2025
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
43 mins; August 03, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
58 mins; August 02, 2025
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
72 hours 48 mins; August 01, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
33 mins; July 31, 2025
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
66 hours 1 min; July 30, 2025
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)
73 hours 3 mins; July 28, 2025
Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
43 mins; July 26, 2025
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 26, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; July 25, 2025
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)
66 hours 55 mins; July 22, 2025
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; July 20, 2025
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
63 hours 46 mins; July 20, 2025
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
81 hours 53 mins; July 20, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
59 mins; July 17, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 16, 2025
Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
42 mins; July 15, 2025
Kampung Activism in Indonesia
22 mins; July 14, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; July 13, 2025
Ignacio G. GalĂĄn, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
58 mins; July 12, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
33 mins; July 12, 2025
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)
58 mins; July 11, 2025
Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
56 mins; July 10, 2025
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 09, 2025
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
39 mins; July 08, 2025
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
25 mins; July 08, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 04, 2025
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
32 mins; July 04, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 03, 2025
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
58 mins; July 02, 2025
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
40 mins; July 02, 2025
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 01, 2025
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
48 mins; June 30, 2025
Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
90 hours 12 mins; June 29, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
56 mins; June 27, 2025
How do Small States Navigate and Shape the Liberal World Order? A conversation with Dylan Loh
35 mins; June 26, 2025
The May 2025 Mid-Term Elections in the Philippines
47 mins; June 25, 2025
Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
84 hours 37 mins; June 25, 2025
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)
50 mins; June 24, 2025
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
36 mins; June 23, 2025
Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
58 mins; June 22, 2025
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?
43 mins; June 22, 2025
Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 21, 2025
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
85 hours 27 mins; June 19, 2025
Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
42 mins; June 15, 2025
Ethnic minorities are good for democracy – Here is why
35 mins; June 12, 2025
Marlene Laruelle, "Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime" (Stanford UP, 2025)
52 mins; June 12, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 09, 2025
Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi" (Hurst, 2020)
69 hours 39 mins; June 08, 2025
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
47 mins; June 07, 2025
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; June 05, 2025
Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
36 mins; June 04, 2025
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
40 mins; June 04, 2025
Jeremy Morris, "Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
68 hours 27 mins; June 03, 2025
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; June 02, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
34 mins; June 02, 2025
Katarina KuĆĄic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 37 mins; June 01, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
35 mins; June 01, 2025
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
26 mins; June 01, 2025
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 31, 2025
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
89 hours 13 mins; May 30, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
46 mins; May 30, 2025
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; May 29, 2025
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
47 mins; May 28, 2025
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 mins; May 27, 2025
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
76 hours 20 mins; May 26, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; May 25, 2025
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; May 24, 2025
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
44 mins; May 24, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
33 mins; May 22, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
74 hours 54 mins; May 22, 2025
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
50 mins; May 21, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
52 mins; May 21, 2025
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
51 mins; May 20, 2025
Postscript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
44 mins; May 19, 2025
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
35 mins; May 18, 2025
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
42 mins; May 16, 2025
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
73 hours 18 mins; May 16, 2025
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
73 hours 10 mins; May 15, 2025
What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
37 mins; May 14, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; May 13, 2025
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
60 hours 9 mins; May 12, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
46 mins; May 12, 2025
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
58 mins; May 11, 2025
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
76 hours 41 mins; May 10, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
71 hours 4 mins; May 09, 2025
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