Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 908
A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a p…
5 months, 1 week ago
George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
Episode 909
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racis…
5 months, 1 week ago
Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis
Episode 907
Here in Episode 8 of Season 5, I interview Professor Sherif Girgis. A graduate of Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School…
5 months, 1 week ago
Inken Von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 905
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? Wh…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Carlos Martins, "Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini" (Desassossego, 2022)
Episode 906
Carlos Martins joins the New Books Network to discuss his book Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini (Desassossego, 2022) (in Portuguese Fascismos: …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
Episode 903
Helen Haas speaks with political scientist Sean Lee about the changing relationship between majorities and minorities in the Middle East, the collaps…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 904
Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly not…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
T. V. Paul, "The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 901
From a Distinguished International Relations Scholar comes The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford UP,…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)
Episode 902
Political Scientist Steve Knott has a new book that focuses on conspiracy theories within the American presidency and often promulgated by the presi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 900
The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate …
5 months, 2 weeks ago