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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
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
30 mins; May 13, 2024
Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)
64 hours 15 mins; May 12, 2024
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
23 mins; May 10, 2024
Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
43 mins; May 09, 2024
Ian Johnson, "Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 17 mins; May 09, 2024
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
36 mins; May 08, 2024
James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 06, 2024
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 05, 2024
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
46 mins; May 05, 2024
Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor, "Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
45 mins; May 04, 2024
J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 36 mins; May 01, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
51 mins; May 01, 2024
Éric Fassin, "State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race: Illiberal France and Beyond" (CEU Press, 2024)
43 mins; April 30, 2024
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
67 hours 33 mins; April 29, 2024
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; April 28, 2024
India Votes 2024
33 mins; April 26, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
50 mins; April 26, 2024
Boubacar N’Diaye, "Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization" (Routledge, 2017)
95 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2024
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
39 mins; April 24, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 mins; April 24, 2024
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
33 mins; April 24, 2024
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 5 mins; April 23, 2024
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
66 hours 18 mins; April 21, 2024
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis" (Brill, 2023)
99 hours 10 mins; April 19, 2024
Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 22 mins; April 18, 2024
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
50 mins; April 18, 2024
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
29 mins; April 17, 2024
Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
32 mins; April 17, 2024
Elliott Prasse-Freeman, "Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar" (Stanford UP, 2023)
58 mins; April 16, 2024
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
54 mins; April 15, 2024
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2024
Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; April 13, 2024
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
30 mins; April 11, 2024
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
33 mins; April 10, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
59 mins; April 10, 2024
Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
57 mins; April 09, 2024
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
58 mins; April 08, 2024
Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
59 mins; April 07, 2024
Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)
66 hours 18 mins; April 07, 2024
Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
56 mins; April 06, 2024
Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
51 mins; April 02, 2024
Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
45 mins; April 02, 2024
Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
63 hours 49 mins; April 01, 2024
Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 31, 2024
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
55 mins; March 31, 2024
Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; March 30, 2024
Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
119 hours 32 mins; March 28, 2024
Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson
44 mins; March 28, 2024
Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution
32 mins; March 27, 2024
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; March 27, 2024
Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
95 hours 26 mins; March 26, 2024
William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)
43 mins; March 26, 2024
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; March 26, 2024
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
99 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2024
Lisa A. Baglione, "Understanding Comparative Politics: An Inclusive Approach" (CQ Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 25, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
68 hours 0 mins; March 24, 2024
Jeffrey A. Javed, "Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
75 hours 50 mins; March 23, 2024
Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; March 22, 2024
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
28 mins; March 22, 2024
Kalika Mehta, "Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis" (Routledge, 2023)
64 hours 34 mins; March 20, 2024
How to Be a Good Statesman: Johnny Burtka on Political Leadership from Xenophon to Churchill
49 mins; March 19, 2024
Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
43 mins; March 18, 2024
Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)
104 hours 4 mins; March 16, 2024
Alina Nychyk, "Ukraine Vis-Ă -Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015" (Ibidem Press, 2023)
51 mins; March 16, 2024
Ali Bhagat, "Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism" (Cornell UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 14, 2024
Authoritarian Practices Go Well Beyond Authoritarian Regimes
26 mins; March 13, 2024
Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
46 mins; March 11, 2024
Samantha Majic, "Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics" (U California Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 10, 2024
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
65 hours 41 mins; March 09, 2024
Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 09, 2024
Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)
50 mins; March 08, 2024
Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)
45 mins; March 05, 2024
Adam Dean, "Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; March 04, 2024
Noah L. Nathan, "The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 03, 2024
Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
47 mins; March 03, 2024
Philip Giurlando and Daniel F. Wajner, "Populist Foreign Policy: Regional Perspectives of Populism in the International Scene" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
69 hours 30 mins; March 01, 2024
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; March 01, 2024
Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
57 mins; March 01, 2024
Leadership in Business, Leadership Abroad: A Conversation with Dave McCormick *96
45 mins; February 28, 2024
Airports, Buses, Internet Cables, and the Local and National Politics in the Philippines
40 mins; February 28, 2024
How Democracies Die . . . and How They May Survive with Daniel Ziblatt
42 mins; February 27, 2024
Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; February 25, 2024
Christopher J. Devine, "I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters" (Columbia UP, 2023)
66 hours 24 mins; February 24, 2024
Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
34 mins; February 24, 2024
Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; February 23, 2024
The Future of the Chinese Military: A Discussion with James A. Siebens
39 mins; February 23, 2024
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
40 mins; February 21, 2024
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
54 mins; February 20, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
62 hours 49 mins; February 20, 2024
Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard, "The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; February 19, 2024
Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
72 hours 36 mins; February 19, 2024
Why is Right-Wing Extremism so Widespread in Italy?
36 mins; February 19, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
73 hours 23 mins; February 18, 2024
The Future of Afghanistan: A Discussion with Kate Clark
40 mins; February 17, 2024
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