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About Keith Krueger
NBN Episodes hosted by Keith:
October 22, 2025
Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
In the long run, countries in Northeast Asia will have to see the need for collective defense. Otherwise, you won’t be able to stop rivalry between po…
September 13, 2025
Fear the Future
Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll see…
August 30, 2025
Law and Development
Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021) examines the theory and practice of law and development. It introduces the Gen…
June 5, 2025
The Party’s Interests Come First
Often I will find in a chronology or a biography, you know, official materials, evidence that because I have other evidence, it’s meaningful in a way …
March 23, 2025
The World's Constitution
“One thing I would note about the Trumpian populists and their counterparts elsewhere in the West today is that they're a very peculiarly tribal kind …
May 14, 2024
Comeback
Defeating the forces of authoritarianism is the political combat task of our age, and we must take it up with the certitude and boldness that our emin…
March 1, 2024
Populist Foreign Policy
The focus of the research on populism as a category of political analysis has mostly been on domestic politics and can be traced back to the 1960s. On…
February 22, 2024
The Code of Capital
"Most lawyers, most actors, most soldiers and sailors, most athletes, most doctors, and most diplomats feel a certain solidarity in the face of outsid…
December 7, 2023
Borders of Belief
Despite theories to the contrary, religious nationalism, and the use of religion to determine membership in the national community, has continued to p…
September 16, 2023
Splitsville USA
At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, de…
May 17, 2023
The Dean of Shandong
I am not now nor at any time have ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet I serve as dean of a large faculty of political science…
May 6, 2023
Accidental Conflict
Denial is a classic symptom of codependency ... Lacking a sense of self, codependent partners tend to be hypersensitive to criticism or negative feedb…
April 17, 2023
Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era
"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral authority’” and commitment to “‘service’ and ‘sacrifice’…
March 19, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
Having lived through both China’s Great Leap Forward during primary school, then the Cultural Revolution and the closing of schools for ten years, Bei…
March 18, 2023
The Struggle for a Decent Politics
The national purpose of the American state is to realize and then sustain the democracy and the equality that was the promise of our founding. I beli…
January 18, 2023
We the Elites
We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we ne…
December 28, 2022
Freedom's Dominion
"History recalls Wallace’s inaugural address as a set piece in the larger drama of defending Southern segregation, which it was. But the speech was ab…
November 23, 2022
Liberal Freedom
The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestat…
October 25, 2022
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime t…
September 7, 2022
Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion
Unfortunately, one takeaway for readers of this book should be the difficulty that not only outside analysts but even party insiders face when trying …
August 18, 2022
Solidarity in Conflict
Of all the concepts that form the constellation of modern political thought, surely “solidarity” is a strong candidate for the most challenging. At on…
August 1, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science po…
July 25, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 1 of 2)
This is part one of a two part interview. "The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broa…
May 17, 2022
Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes
Political corruption remains … one of the most intriguing and challenging issues in social science research and public policy, perhaps because althoug…