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Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
52 mins; May 08, 2025
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
48 mins; May 07, 2025
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
39 mins; May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 05, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
51 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
59 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
47 mins; May 01, 2025
Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
34 mins; May 01, 2025
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
55 mins; April 30, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
32 mins; April 29, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; April 27, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
80 hours 48 mins; April 26, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
50 mins; April 25, 2025
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 50 mins; April 24, 2025
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
48 mins; April 23, 2025
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; April 22, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
42 mins; April 21, 2025
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
48 mins; April 20, 2025
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 19, 2025
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
33 mins; April 18, 2025
Is Democracy and Peace Possible in Myanmar? A Conversation with Claire Smith
41 mins; April 17, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
66 hours 42 mins; April 16, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 15, 2025
DĂĄna-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
56 mins; April 14, 2025
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
71 hours 24 mins; April 13, 2025
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
65 hours 20 mins; April 12, 2025
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 11, 2025
Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
101 hours 7 mins; April 10, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
64 hours 6 mins; April 09, 2025
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
44 mins; April 08, 2025
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
62 hours 52 mins; April 07, 2025
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
24 mins; April 06, 2025
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
39 mins; April 05, 2025
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine
36 mins; April 04, 2025
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
45 mins; April 03, 2025
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
47 mins; April 02, 2025
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
62 hours 10 mins; April 01, 2025
Postscript: History, Narratives, and Political Power--An Emergency Oral History Project
46 mins; March 31, 2025
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
61 hours 11 mins; March 30, 2025
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
40 mins; March 29, 2025
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
27 mins; March 28, 2025
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 20 mins; March 27, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
32 mins; March 26, 2025
Madhavi Devasher, "Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; March 25, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Gerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 54 mins; March 23, 2025
Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
111 hours 40 mins; March 23, 2025
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; March 22, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
52 mins; March 21, 2025
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
64 hours 22 mins; March 20, 2025
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
60 hours 48 mins; March 19, 2025
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
43 mins; March 18, 2025
Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
63 hours 17 mins; March 17, 2025
Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
60 hours 10 mins; March 16, 2025
Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 15, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
18 mins; March 14, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
41 mins; March 13, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
45 mins; March 12, 2025
Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
46 mins; March 10, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
64 hours 26 mins; March 10, 2025
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?
64 hours 43 mins; March 10, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil
37 mins; March 08, 2025
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
38 mins; March 06, 2025
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 43 mins; March 04, 2025
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
45 mins; March 03, 2025
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
29 mins; March 01, 2025
Ian G. Baird, "Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
45 mins; March 01, 2025
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024)
67 hours 10 mins; March 01, 2025
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2025
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; February 28, 2025
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; February 27, 2025
Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
66 hours 1 min; February 26, 2025
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
46 mins; February 26, 2025
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 25, 2025
Marion Laurence, "Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 24, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
54 mins; February 24, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
96 hours 9 mins; February 24, 2025
Ting Guo, "Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
77 hours 36 mins; February 24, 2025
TrumpWorld: Canada, South Africa, Germany, and the Global Far-Right
38 mins; February 22, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
56 mins; February 20, 2025
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
49 mins; February 19, 2025
Aidan McGarry, "Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 36 mins; February 18, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 17, 2025
Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
76 hours 18 mins; February 15, 2025
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2025
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)
68 hours 28 mins; February 14, 2025
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
51 mins; February 14, 2025
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
42 mins; February 13, 2025
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
54 mins; February 13, 2025
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
68 hours 44 mins; February 13, 2025
William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)
75 hours 5 mins; February 12, 2025
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
69 hours 33 mins; February 12, 2025
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
40 mins; February 11, 2025
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 11, 2025
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
62 hours 20 mins; February 08, 2025
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