New Books in Political Science
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Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Jun 24, 202642 min
Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 24, 202629 min
Why Democracy’s Troubles Should Come as No Surprise
Jun 23, 2026
Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 21, 202633 min
Jonathan Daly, "The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jun 21, 20261h 17m
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Jun 21, 20261h 3m
Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jun 20, 202653 min
Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL Press, 2026)
Jun 20, 20261h 17m
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 18, 202647 min
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Jun 17, 2026
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Jun 12, 2026
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 12, 202639 min
Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
Jun 11, 202644 min
Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Jun 11, 202640 min
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Jun 10, 20261h 0m
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
Jun 9, 2026
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
Jun 8, 20261h 15m
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 8, 20261h 11m
Courtney Rickert McCaffrey et al., "Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)
Jun 5, 20261h 9m
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 2, 20261h 34m
The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Populism with Iain Quinn
Jun 1, 202632 min
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
May 30, 20261h 12m
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
May 29, 202640 min
The Instigators
May 28, 202655 min
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28, 20261h 35m
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
May 27, 2026
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
May 26, 2026
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
May 26, 20263 min
Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?
May 26, 202646 min
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
May 25, 202651 min
Nathan K. Finney, "Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 21, 202633 min
Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)
May 21, 202641 min
Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis
May 20, 20261h 1m
George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
May 20, 202645 min
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 20, 20261h 4m
Carlos Martins, "Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini" (Desassossego, 2022)
May 18, 20261h 19m
Inken Von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 18, 202659 min
Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
May 15, 2026
Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)
May 15, 202634 min
Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)
May 14, 202649 min
T. V. Paul, "The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 14, 20261h 5m
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 12, 202651 min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 9, 20261h 5m
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 8, 202638 min
Steffen Mau et al., "The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" (Policy Press, 2026)
May 8, 20261h 1m
J. Michael Cole, "The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War" (Polity, 2025)
May 6, 202655 min
What Does the American Presidency Mean?
May 5, 202652 min
Siniša Malešević, "Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 4, 20261h 5m
Arely M. Zimmerman, "Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
May 3, 202623 min
Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
May 1, 202637 min