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Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
79 hours 28 mins; February 11, 2024
Daniel Druckman, "Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement" (Routledge, 2023)
75 hours 3 mins; February 11, 2024
David C. Young et al., "Policy Matters: Perspectives, Procedures, and Processes" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
56 mins; February 09, 2024
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
56 mins; February 09, 2024
The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White
41 mins; February 07, 2024
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
59 mins; February 02, 2024
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)
57 mins; February 02, 2024
Petra Alderman, "Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand" (Routledge, 2023)
33 mins; February 01, 2024
The Conflict in Sudan
62 hours 40 mins; February 01, 2024
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2024
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; February 01, 2024
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; January 31, 2024
Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
55 mins; January 31, 2024
Democracy in Malawai
38 mins; January 31, 2024
Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 30, 2024
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
59 mins; January 29, 2024
On Authoritarianism: A Discussion with Author and Political Scientist Matthew C. MacWilliams
55 mins; January 29, 2024
Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; January 29, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
28 mins; January 28, 2024
Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024
Elliot Short, "Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
65 hours 51 mins; January 27, 2024
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
57 mins; January 26, 2024
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 49 mins; January 26, 2024
Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 23, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
65 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2024
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
58 mins; January 22, 2024
Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
80 hours 35 mins; January 22, 2024
Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
45 mins; January 18, 2024
The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
59 mins; January 17, 2024
Democracy, Great Powers, and the Russia-Ukraine War. A Discussion with Stefan Wolff
26 mins; January 17, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 40 mins; January 17, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; January 15, 2024
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
36 mins; January 14, 2024
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
40 mins; January 14, 2024
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
58 mins; January 12, 2024
Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
33 mins; January 12, 2024
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
30 mins; January 12, 2024
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 08, 2024
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 7 mins; January 08, 2024
Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
63 hours 52 mins; January 06, 2024
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
66 hours 57 mins; January 05, 2024
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
47 mins; January 04, 2024
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 58 mins; January 03, 2024
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; January 03, 2024
Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; January 02, 2024
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
58 mins; January 02, 2024
Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
55 mins; January 02, 2024
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
50 mins; January 01, 2024
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
47 mins; January 01, 2024
Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; December 31, 2023
James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)
60 hours 32 mins; December 31, 2023
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
61 hours 37 mins; December 27, 2023
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
45 mins; December 26, 2023
Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
61 hours 37 mins; December 23, 2023
The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
37 mins; December 23, 2023
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
27 mins; December 22, 2023
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
38 mins; December 21, 2023
Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 0 mins; December 19, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
58 mins; December 19, 2023
AntĂłnio Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)
93 hours 18 mins; December 19, 2023
Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; December 18, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 18, 2023
Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government
46 mins; December 18, 2023
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 17, 2023
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
56 mins; December 16, 2023
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
40 mins; December 16, 2023
Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 16, 2023
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2023
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
25 mins; December 15, 2023
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
81 hours 41 mins; December 14, 2023
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
49 mins; December 14, 2023
Have We Entered a New Era of African Politics and International Relations?
34 mins; December 13, 2023
Stephen Boucher et al., "The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance" (Routledge, 2023)
27 mins; December 13, 2023
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
42 mins; December 12, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
51 mins; December 12, 2023
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
57 mins; December 09, 2023
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 57 mins; December 08, 2023
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
27 mins; December 08, 2023
Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
99 hours 4 mins; December 07, 2023
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
51 mins; December 07, 2023
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 07, 2023
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
45 mins; December 06, 2023
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 05, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
38 mins; December 04, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; December 04, 2023
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 03, 2023
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
66 hours 50 mins; December 03, 2023
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
62 hours 30 mins; December 01, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
62 hours 29 mins; November 30, 2023
Sandra Destradi, "Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively" (Bristol UP, 2023)
51 mins; November 30, 2023
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
76 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 29, 2023
Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
50 mins; November 28, 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
39 mins; November 27, 2023
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
68 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2023
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 23, 2023
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
42 mins; November 21, 2023
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