New Books in Political Science

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Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 31, 2025 – 56:14
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
May 30, 2025 – 01:29:13
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
May 30, 2025 – 46:31
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 29, 2025 – 54:35
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
May 28, 2025 – 47:16
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 27, 2025 – 30:49
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
May 26, 2025 – 01:16:20
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 25, 2025 – 57:23
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
May 24, 2025 – 44:02
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 24, 2025 – 54:54
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
May 23, 2025 – 33:34
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 22, 2025 – 01:14:54
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 21, 2025 – 50:11
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
May 21, 2025 – 52:05
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
May 20, 2025 – 51:34
Postscript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
May 19, 2025 – 44:25
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
May 18, 2025 – 35:03
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
May 17, 2025 – 42:42
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 16, 2025 – 01:13:18
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2025 – 01:13:10
What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
May 14, 2025 – 37:21
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 57:52
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
May 12, 2025 – 46:31
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
May 12, 2025 – 01:00:09
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
May 11, 2025 – 58:34
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
May 10, 2025 – 01:16:41
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
May 9, 2025 – 01:11:04
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
May 8, 2025 – 52:44
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 7, 2025 – 48:51
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 6, 2025 – 39:25
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5, 2025 – 59:15
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
May 4, 2025 – 51:15
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
May 3, 2025 – 59:43
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
May 2, 2025 – 44:27
Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 34:26
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
May 1, 2025 – 49:08
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
Apr 30, 2025 – 55:33
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Apr 29, 2025 – 32:50
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Apr 27, 2025 – 01:11:14
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 26, 2025 – 01:20:48
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025 – 50:06
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:22:50
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
Apr 23, 2025 – 48:00
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 22, 2025 – 56:59
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
Apr 21, 2025 – 42:41
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 20, 2025 – 48:06
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025 – 46:29
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Apr 18, 2025 – 33:12
Is Democracy and Peace Possible in Myanmar? A Conversation with Claire Smith
Apr 17, 2025 – 41:11

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