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Political Science
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.
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
May 6, 2024
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical anal…
May 5, 2024
Why America Loses Wars
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e…
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
May 4, 2024
Varieties of Nationalism
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also…
May 1, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jew…
May 1, 2024
Private Censorship
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
April 30, 2024
State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Éric Fassin (Université Paris 8) to discus…
April 29, 2024
The Winding Road to the Welfare State
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generatio…
April 28, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs…
April 26, 2024
Tracks on the Trail
From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z's song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," politicians have u…
April 25, 2024
Mauritania's Colonels
Boubacar N’Diaye's book Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization (Routledge, 2017), the result of mor…
April 24, 2024
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändle…
April 24, 2024
The Political Brain
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University) to dis…
April 24, 2024
Digital Empires
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…
April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
April 20, 2024
Undesired Revolution
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives on …
April 18, 2024
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker
Plutarch is one of history's most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hami…
April 18, 2024
Recognition Politics
Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana is a pioneering …