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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.

Mark Leonard, "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (Polity Press, 2026)

August 22, 2026

Surviving Chaos

Mark Leonard
Hosted by Lucas Tse

"Expansive visions. Universal institutions. Ideas of progress. It was on the back of these that the West surged ahead and built a global order. I was …

Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

August 20, 2026

The Elephants in the Room

Seth Masket
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Political Scientist Seth Masket’s new book, The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders (Cambridge UP, 2026) …

Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

August 18, 2026

Genocide Prevention

Deborah Mayersen
Hosted by Kelly McFall

There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet …

Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026)

August 16, 2026

Nuclear Archipelago Secrets

Elizabeth Tynan

Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia (NewSouth, 2026) tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weap…

Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security" (Stanford UP, 2023)

August 15, 2026

Shadow Negotiators

Matias E. Margulis
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. Marguli…

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951): A Discussion with Jay Garfinkel

August 14, 2026

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)

Eric Hoffer
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophi…

Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic" (Verso Books, 2026)

August 14, 2026

Counterrevolution in Egypt

Hossam el-Hamalawy
Hosted by Alec Fiorini

Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Verso Books, 2026) is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and method…

Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 13, 2026

Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation

Kathleen J. Frydl
Hosted by Lilly Goren

This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a fascinating,…

Yulia Gradskova et al., "Good Mothers, Nations and Nationalisms: Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden" (CEU Press, 2026)

August 13, 2026

Good Mothers , Nations and Nationalisms

Yulia Gradskova, Ieva Bisigirskaite, and Soheyla Yazdanpanah
Hosted by CEU Press

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press, 2026) talks with Yulia Gradskova and Ieva Bisigirskaitė, two of the three authors behind Good Mothers…

Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

August 10, 2026

Dalit Studies

Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies…

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

August 9, 2026

Beyond Free Speech

Eduardo Albrecht

Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author…

Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)

August 9, 2026

Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China

Ka-ming Wu
Hosted by Yadong Li

Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations (Leiden University Press, 2026) examines how Chin…

Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)

August 7, 2026

The Environmental Republic

Giulio Boccaletti

Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty wit…

Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

August 6, 2026

Inside Parties

Georgia Kernell
Hosted by Satyaki Barua

Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how par…

Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Norton, 2026)

August 5, 2026

Boss Lincoln

Matthew Pinsker
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to…

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…

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…

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…