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Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
81 hours 53 mins; August 07, 2024
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
48 mins; August 07, 2024
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
64 hours 29 mins; August 06, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; August 06, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
51 mins; August 05, 2024
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
28 mins; August 05, 2024
Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
65 hours 23 mins; August 03, 2024
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 4 mins; August 02, 2024
Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update
26 mins; August 02, 2024
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
42 mins; August 02, 2024
Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; August 01, 2024
Oliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
70 hours 49 mins; August 01, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
72 hours 28 mins; July 31, 2024
On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations
48 mins; July 31, 2024
Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
39 mins; July 31, 2024
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
62 hours 25 mins; July 28, 2024
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 26, 2024
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
55 mins; July 25, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
75 hours 33 mins; July 24, 2024
Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
52 mins; July 24, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
45 mins; July 23, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; July 22, 2024
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
63 hours 56 mins; July 21, 2024
Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009)
72 hours 42 mins; July 21, 2024
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
52 mins; July 19, 2024
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
54 mins; July 19, 2024
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
28 mins; July 18, 2024
Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 17, 2024
Zana Gulmohamad, "The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
68 hours 53 mins; July 13, 2024
Mark L. Haas, "Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally" (Cornell UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 13, 2024
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
52 mins; July 11, 2024
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
34 mins; July 10, 2024
Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 37 mins; July 09, 2024
Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; July 08, 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
48 mins; July 06, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
69 hours 12 mins; July 01, 2024
Postscript: Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
64 hours 56 mins; July 01, 2024
Nicolas VĂ©ron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
43 mins; June 28, 2024
Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 28, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
48 mins; June 27, 2024
The Democratic Regression: The Political Causes of Authoritarian Populism
34 mins; June 27, 2024
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; June 25, 2024
Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
57 mins; June 25, 2024
Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; June 25, 2024
Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
45 mins; June 24, 2024
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
90 hours 26 mins; June 23, 2024
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
59 mins; June 22, 2024
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
36 mins; June 20, 2024
Politics in Action 2024: Indonesia Update
26 mins; June 20, 2024
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
76 hours 10 mins; June 19, 2024
Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; June 18, 2024
John Keane and Baogang He, "China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 44 mins; June 17, 2024
Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
55 mins; June 17, 2024
David Criekemans, "Geopolitics and International Relations: Grounding World Politics Anew" (Brill, 2021)
101 hours 21 mins; June 16, 2024
Meredith Weiss et al., "Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 15, 2024
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 15, 2024
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
46 mins; June 15, 2024
Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
45 mins; June 14, 2024
Branding Foreign Aid: Soft Power and Popular Attitudes in International Development
36 mins; June 13, 2024
The Complexities of the EU Parliament Elections
46 mins; June 13, 2024
Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
44 mins; June 13, 2024
What and Why are Political Beliefs? A Conversation with Oliver Traldi
55 mins; June 12, 2024
Robert G. Boatright, "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; June 10, 2024
Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
54 mins; June 10, 2024
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
59 mins; June 09, 2024
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
71 hours 45 mins; June 09, 2024
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
31 mins; June 07, 2024
Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)
81 hours 8 mins; June 05, 2024
Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; June 05, 2024
We Should Not Take the UN For Granted: A Discussion with Abiodun Williams
33 mins; June 04, 2024
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2024
All About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy
26 mins; May 31, 2024
South Africa Goes to the Polls
57 mins; May 30, 2024
Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; May 30, 2024
Nisrin Elamin on the Conflict in Sudan
62 hours 16 mins; May 30, 2024
Democratic Crisis in Senegal
57 mins; May 29, 2024
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 28, 2024
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
43 mins; May 27, 2024
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; May 27, 2024
Marc C. Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
65 hours 7 mins; May 26, 2024
Nicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl, "After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
68 hours 9 mins; May 25, 2024
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
86 hours 46 mins; May 24, 2024
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
26 mins; May 24, 2024
Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 23, 2024
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; May 20, 2024
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld, "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 20, 2024
Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)
44 mins; May 20, 2024
The Climate Crisis as a Problem of Collective Action: A Discussion with Dana Fisher
40 mins; May 18, 2024
Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
62 hours 35 mins; May 17, 2024
The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson
32 mins; May 16, 2024
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 7 mins; May 16, 2024
Lisa Langdon Koch, "Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; May 16, 2024
Chris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)
61 hours 8 mins; May 15, 2024
José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 15, 2024
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 15, 2024
M. Steven Fish, "Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge" (Rivertowns Books, 2024)
113 hours 33 mins; May 14, 2024
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
53 mins; May 14, 2024
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
61 hours 56 mins; May 14, 2024
Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; May 13, 2024
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