New Books in Political Science
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Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
41 mins; February 07, 2025
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; February 07, 2025
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
65 hours 43 mins; February 06, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
56 mins; February 06, 2025
We Are Free to Change the World: A Conversation on Hannah Arendt with Lyndsay Stonebridge
47 mins; February 05, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 45 mins; February 04, 2025
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
76 hours 12 mins; February 03, 2025
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
34 mins; February 03, 2025
Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
69 hours 58 mins; February 02, 2025
Adam Chapnick, "Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 24 mins; February 01, 2025
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
Talking Thai Politics: Chanintorn Pensute, The Cost of Politics in Thailand
33 mins; January 27, 2025
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2025
Shimon Shetreet, "Judicial Independence: Cornerstone of Democracy" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
48 mins; January 26, 2025
Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 23, 2025
Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
48 mins; January 22, 2025
Christina L. Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations" (Princeton UP, 2023)
48 mins; January 17, 2025
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
56 mins; January 16, 2025
Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 15, 2025
Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
54 mins; January 13, 2025
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
87 hours 42 mins; January 11, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2025
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; January 08, 2025
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
60 hours 26 mins; January 07, 2025
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
85 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; January 04, 2025
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; January 01, 2025
Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)
70 hours 7 mins; January 01, 2025
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2024
Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
67 hours 40 mins; December 28, 2024
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
31 mins; December 27, 2024
Enze Han, "The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2024)
27 mins; December 26, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
AmĂŠlie Barras, "Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations" (Stanford UP, 2024)
56 mins; December 24, 2024
Transatlantic Tensions: Trump’s Return and Europe’s Far-Right Resurgence
41 mins; December 23, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
38 mins; December 23, 2024
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
66 hours 0 mins; December 23, 2024
Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)
71 hours 1 min; December 21, 2024
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 48 mins; December 21, 2024
Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 20 mins; December 18, 2024
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
34 mins; December 17, 2024
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
81 hours 26 mins; December 16, 2024
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; December 16, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
56 mins; December 14, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
49 mins; December 13, 2024
How to Tackle Political Violence
33 mins; December 13, 2024
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala" (Routledge, 2024)
53 mins; December 09, 2024
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
58 mins; December 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
57 mins; December 08, 2024
David Cowan, "Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
53 mins; December 08, 2024
Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
72 hours 4 mins; December 08, 2024
Stanislava P. Mladenova, "When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil-Military Engagement in Fragile States" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
53 mins; December 06, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; December 06, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Pornchai Witayalerdpan – What’s Up with the Thai Senate?
33 mins; December 06, 2024
Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 04, 2024
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
73 hours 41 mins; December 02, 2024
Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
75 hours 17 mins; December 02, 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
60 hours 46 mins; November 30, 2024
How Are Southeast Asia’s Toxic Alliances Undermining the Region’s Prospects for Democracy?
44 mins; November 29, 2024
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
30 mins; November 28, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 28, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 27, 2024
Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
99 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2024
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
63 hours 15 mins; November 25, 2024
Public Healthcare Under Decentralized Governance in Indonesia and the Philippines
40 mins; November 24, 2024
Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 24, 2024
Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization
80 hours 28 mins; November 24, 2024
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
39 mins; November 24, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Why Thai Politics isn’t All About China
32 mins; November 22, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
97 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2024
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
52 mins; November 21, 2024
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 16, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
47 mins; November 16, 2024
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?
44 mins; November 15, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
63 hours 22 mins; November 14, 2024
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
46 mins; November 13, 2024
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
46 mins; November 13, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 11, 2024
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
75 hours 46 mins; November 08, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
28 mins; November 08, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
48 mins; November 07, 2024
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2024
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
68 hours 5 mins; November 05, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
39 mins; November 05, 2024
Unpacking Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia with Dan Slater
56 mins; November 05, 2024
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
38 mins; November 04, 2024
Graham Brady, "Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers" (Ithaka, 2024)
39 mins; November 04, 2024
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
60 hours 1 min; November 01, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
34 mins; October 31, 2024
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 19 mins; October 31, 2024
Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 30, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
86 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Prajak Kongkirati, Thailand: Contestation, Polarization and Democratic Regression (Cambridge 2024)
27 mins; October 28, 2024
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2024
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
56 mins; October 23, 2024