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Political Science

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The New Books in Political Science podcast provides lively discussions of politics based on the work of political scientists (and scholars concerned with politics in other disciplines). The podcast thinks holistically about politics – from global to local.

Our hosts! Lilly Goren is professor of Political Science at Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Susan Liebell is professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Lamis Abdelaaty is associate professor of Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs.

Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)

August 2, 2026

Pandemic Politics in Central Asia

Luca Anceschi
Hosted by Adam Quinn

Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion (Routledge, 2026) examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and U…

Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)

August 2, 2026

A Post-Liberal Peace

Monalisa Adhikari
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising power…

The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

July 31, 2026

The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 20…

The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond

July 30, 2026

The Long Reach of the Strong Arm

Mubashar Hasan and Arild Engelsen Ruud eds.

How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnati…

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

July 30, 2026

The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repre…

Adam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion" (Cornell UP, 2026)

July 28, 2026

Authoritarian Markets

Adam Y. Liu
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978 China …

Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

July 25, 2026

Casting War As Love

Galina Bogatova
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind R…

Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control

July 23, 2026

Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control

Leopoldo López
Hosted by Licia Cianetti

Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing colla…

Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

July 23, 2026

The Authority of International Courts

Dana Burchardt
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A B…

Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

July 23, 2026

Backlash Presidents

Julia R. Azari
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Julia Azari, Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, has a new, award-winning[*] book centering on the connection between race and th…

Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabinet" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

July 22, 2026

Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet

Michael Patrick Cullinane
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but the…

R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

July 21, 2026

Dream the Size of Freedom

R. Joseph Parrott
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrot…

Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)

July 21, 2026

False Idols

Kurt Warner
Hosted by Dessy Vassileva

False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy (Vernon Press, 2024) examines how modern forms of diversion shape civic life and weaken democratic …

US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen

July 18, 2026

US 250

Peter John Loewen, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University

This week on Democracy Dialogues, Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Peter John Loewen to reflect on the 250th anniversary of US independence. They disc…

Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)

July 18, 2026

Flirting with Evil

Ambrogio Caiani
Hosted by Charles Coutinho

It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation (Ap…

Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)

July 17, 2026

SimPolitics

Fenwick McKelvey
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

This book is available open access. For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nati…

Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)

July 16, 2026

The Authoritarian Divide

Christopher Federico, Stanley Feldman, and Christopher Weber
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Political Scientists Christopher Federico, Stanley Feldman, and Christopher Weber have an important and fascinating new book from Oxford University Pr…

Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP, 2025)

July 16, 2026

Fascism in India

Luna Sabastian
Hosted by Sachin Nikarge

Fascism swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s, but not only because of the seductive rhetoric of Mussolini, Hitler, and their collaborators. In India…

Dan Altman, "Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945" (Cornell UP, 2026)

July 12, 2026

Taking Territory

Dan Altman

Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2026) is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest persis…

The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz

July 12, 2026

The Emerging Anocracy

Alexis Cruz
Hosted by Eli Karetny

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny sits down with Alexis Cruz, founder of Enough Consulting and former strateg…