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India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
57 mins; October 23, 2024
Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)
43 mins; October 22, 2024
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
44 mins; October 22, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; October 17, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
58 mins; October 16, 2024
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
44 mins; October 16, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings, "The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
50 mins; October 15, 2024
Jacques Bertrand, "Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
49 mins; October 15, 2024
Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)
44 mins; October 12, 2024
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
34 mins; October 11, 2024
How have Bureaucratic Politics Undermined Pakistan’s Prospects for Democracy?
40 mins; October 10, 2024
Victor C. Shih, "Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 10, 2024
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
59 mins; October 09, 2024
The UN and its Discreet Diplomacy in Peacemaking
33 mins; October 08, 2024
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
76 hours 20 mins; October 08, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
28 mins; October 07, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
102 hours 50 mins; October 05, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; October 05, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
97 hours 25 mins; October 04, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
75 hours 19 mins; October 04, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
81 hours 36 mins; October 03, 2024
Prabowo Subianto and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy
41 mins; October 02, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 8 mins; October 01, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
74 hours 43 mins; October 01, 2024
Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 11 mins; September 30, 2024
Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
91 hours 23 mins; September 30, 2024
InĂŠs Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 47 mins; September 29, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
63 hours 6 mins; September 27, 2024
Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 14 mins; September 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 23, 2024
The Far-Right Threat in German Politics: A Discussion with Marcus BĂśick
36 mins; September 23, 2024
Andreas E. Feldmann, "Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War" (Columbia UP, 2024)
42 mins; September 22, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2024
Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
58 mins; September 20, 2024
Why Almost Everything You Think about Protests in Africa is Wrong
32 mins; September 19, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2: A Conversation with Julia Mahoney
51 mins; September 18, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
132 hours 4 mins; September 18, 2024
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 16, 2024
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; September 14, 2024
Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 14, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
56 mins; September 13, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 13, 2024
Postscript: Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
52 mins; September 13, 2024
The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
24 mins; September 12, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day Pt. 1: A Conversation with Cass R. Sunstein
49 mins; September 11, 2024
Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
41 mins; September 10, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
41 mins; September 10, 2024
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)
52 mins; September 09, 2024
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; September 09, 2024
Aditi Malik, "Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 06, 2024
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
67 hours 5 mins; September 06, 2024
Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 mins; September 05, 2024
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; September 04, 2024
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
33 mins; September 04, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
81 hours 26 mins; September 03, 2024
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 9 mins; September 03, 2024
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
53 mins; September 02, 2024
Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 45 mins; September 01, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
40 mins; August 30, 2024
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
67 hours 15 mins; August 29, 2024
Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
44 mins; August 28, 2024
Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds, "Understanding Maritime Security" (Oxford UP, 2024)
40 mins; August 28, 2024
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 27, 2024
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
68 hours 25 mins; August 26, 2024
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
59 mins; August 26, 2024
Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 25 mins; August 26, 2024
The Democrats Have a Party: DNC2024
56 mins; August 26, 2024
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 44 mins; August 25, 2024
Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)
108 hours 12 mins; August 24, 2024
Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
79 hours 17 mins; August 21, 2024
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
59 mins; August 21, 2024
Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 14 mins; August 20, 2024
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
64 hours 43 mins; August 20, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
43 mins; August 19, 2024
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
65 hours 33 mins; August 18, 2024
Justine Bendel, "Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure Before International Courts and Tribunals" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
78 hours 37 mins; August 18, 2024
Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
62 hours 26 mins; August 17, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)
41 mins; August 17, 2024
Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
42 mins; August 17, 2024
Democracy Promotion, Progressive Realism and the Labour Government’s Policy Towards Asia
39 mins; August 16, 2024
Heath Brown, "Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
59 mins; August 16, 2024
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
113 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2024
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
55 mins; August 14, 2024
Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)
64 hours 33 mins; August 12, 2024
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
33 mins; August 11, 2024
How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?
49 mins; August 10, 2024
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
72 hours 6 mins; August 10, 2024
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
49 mins; August 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
89 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2024
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
47 mins; August 08, 2024
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