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August 16, 2022
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965
Eva-Maria Muschik
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Miranda Melcher
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the …
Political Science
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Interviews with political scientists about their new books.
Political Science
August 15, 2022
Hijacking the Agenda
Economic Power and Political Influence
Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns
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Susan Liebell
How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often neglected while the interests and priorities of wealthier Americans …
Political Science
August 15, 2022
The Revenge of Power
How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
Moisés Naím
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Caleb Zakarin
Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It …
Southeast Asian Studies
August 15, 2022
Deliberative Democracy in Asia
Baogang He, Michael Breen, and James Fishkin
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Nicole Curato
Southeast Asia is a region often associated with authoritarian resilience and democratic decline. In this podcast, Professor Baogang He examines the various ways in which Southeast Asian countries have institutionalised …
Economics
August 12, 2022
Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism
Roselyn Hsueh
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Peter Lorentzen
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries integrate into the global economy. Examining the labor-intensive textile sector and the capital-intensive …
Public Policy
August 12, 2022
Single Payer Healthcare Reform
Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement
Lindy S. F. Hern
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Gregory Soden
In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Lindy Hern provides a comprehensive history of the grassroots Movement …
General History
August 12, 2022
Political Enthusiasm
Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments
Andrew Poe
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Miranda Melcher
Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as …
African Studies
August 12, 2022
When Soldiers Rebel
Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa
Kristen A. Harkness
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Andrew Miller
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains understudied, especially over the last decade …
Political Science
August 11, 2022
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
Hosted by
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 …
Genocide Studies
August 11, 2022
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones
Hosted by
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 9, 2022
The Future of Political Anger
A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth
Hosted by
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
Hosted by
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
Hosted by
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 …
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