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Back to SearchA Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 V-Dem Report
Episode 2047
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Kenneth Roberts and Paul Friesen, democracy experts at Cornell University, to …
7 months, 1 week ago
Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 165
In his new book, The Political Economy of Security (Princeton University Press, 2026), Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretical…
7 months, 1 week ago
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2046
Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Episode 2045
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, has been writing about war for decades, including in his book Bombing to Win: Air Po…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)
Episode 2044
A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot
The world is crossing the 1.…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Jeff Knopf et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2043
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would re…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
Episode 2042
Eleven days into the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, starting on Feb. 28, 2026, I speak with Vali Nasr, a renowned analyst of Iran. H…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)
Episode 2041
In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 2040
Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framework…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)
Episode 2039
The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Existing policies won’t limit global …
7 months, 4 weeks ago