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Genocide Studies
August 11, 2022
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones
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Kelly McFall
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's been influential in drawing attention …
Political Science
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Interviews with political scientists about their new books.
Indian Religions
August 11, 2022
Sadhus in Indian Politics
Dynamics of Hindutva
Koushiki Dasgupta
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Raj Balkaran
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics …
Political Science
August 11, 2022
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
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Lilly Goren
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding and connection conducive to dismantling the remains of …
Writ Large
August 10, 2022
On Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion"
A Discussion with Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
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Zachary Davis
What is the role of the press in a democracy? For nearly a century, scholars, media critics, and politicians have debated this question—in a large part thanks to Walter Lippmann …
Politics & Polemics
August 10, 2022
Paths of Dissent
Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen
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Caleb Zakarin
Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2022) collects provocative …
Law
August 10, 2022
Who Decides?
States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation
Jeffrey S. Sutton
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William Domnarski
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on …
Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
August 9, 2022
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
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Nick Cheesman
Anastasia Shesterinina begins Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) with an account of Georgian troops crossing into eastern Abkhazia, in the Southern Caucasus …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 9, 2022
The Future of Political Anger
A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth
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Owen Bennett-Jones
Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at being left behind, anger …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 5, 2022
Oil, the State, and War
The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
Emma Ashford
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Miranda Melcher
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022) by Dr. Emma Ashford presents a comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil …
SSEAC Stories
August 5, 2022
East Timorese Politics
A New Dawn or Return to Business as Usual?
Michael Leach
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Natali Pearson
As the newest nation in Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste has been independent for just over 20 years. Timor-Leste is regularly ranked the most democratic nation in the region, and since reclaiming …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
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Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
Biography
August 4, 2022
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin
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Caleb Zakarin
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they …
Economics
August 4, 2022
The Effect
An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Nick Huntington-Klein
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Peter Lorentzen
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …
Indian Religions
August 4, 2022
Gods in the Time of Democracy
Kajri Jain
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Raj Balkaran
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 3, 2022
Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Yaniv Voller
Hosted by
Dilan Okcuoglu
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, In Second-Generation Liberation Wars Cambridge UP, 2022),Yaniv …
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
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Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
General History
August 3, 2022
Left in the Center
The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy
Daniel Soyer
Hosted by
Robert Snyder
The history of small political parties and the history of the American left are closely intertwined, especially in the book Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York …
Critical Theory
August 1, 2022
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
Daniel Laurison
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Dave O'Brien
Who runs American politics? In Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (Beacon Press, 2022), Daniel Laurison, an associate professor …
Philosophy
August 1, 2022
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence
Cécile Fabre
Hosted by
Robert Talisse
On its face, spying and counter-intelligence activities seem morally suspect. They tend to involve sneaking, deceiving, and manipulating, as well as various forms of betrayal, treachery, and disloyalty. Yet intelligence …
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