New Books in Political Science
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The American Right in Ferment: A Conversation with Writer Matthew Continetti
Sep 21, 202655 min
Stefano Recchia, "Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council" (Yale UP, 2025)
Sep 20, 202651 min
Brian L. Porto, "Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshire and Vermont" (U Mass Press, 2026)
Sep 19, 202635 min
Lily Geismer on the Democratic Party in the 1990s
Sep 16, 20261h 23m
Why Voters Support Politicians Who Undermine Democracy
Sep 14, 202634 min
Nora Fisher-Onar, "Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 14, 20261h 8m
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Sep 11, 202647 min
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 10, 202653 min
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 10, 202649 min
Voices from North Korea: Refugees Tell Their Stories
Sep 8, 202642 min
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Sep 5, 202641 min
Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Sep 5, 202624 min
Jieun Baek, "Privileged But Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness" (Yale UP, 2026)
Sep 4, 202651 min
Nikhil Kalyanpur, "Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Sep 4, 202632 min
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 1m
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 2m
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
Sep 2, 20261h 2m
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 20261h 12m
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Aug 28, 202656 min
Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America" (Temple UP, 2026)
Aug 28, 20261h 0m
Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 26, 202650 min
After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller
Aug 25, 202653 min
Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Aug 24, 202639 min
Mark Leonard, "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (Polity Press, 2026)
Aug 22, 20261h 4m
Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 20, 202649 min
Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 18, 20261h 9m
Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026)
Aug 16, 20261h 2m
Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 15, 202654 min
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951): A Discussion with Jay Garfinkel
Aug 14, 202632 min
Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Verso Books, 2026)
Aug 14, 20261h 37m
Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 13, 20261h 4m
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Aug 10, 20261h 7m
Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202652 min
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Aug 9, 202658 min
Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 26m
Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 6, 202651 min
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Aug 2, 20261h 2m
Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)
Aug 2, 20261h 0m
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Jul 31, 202634 min
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Jul 30, 2026
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
Jul 30, 202651 min
Adam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202657 min
Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Jul 25, 202638 min
Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 23, 202642 min
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Jul 23, 2026
Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
Jul 23, 202657 min
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabinet" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Jul 22, 202654 min
Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 202637 min
US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen
Jul 18, 202653 min
Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 4m