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Back to SearchKevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 219
In his book, Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kevin Donovan argues that Ea…
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Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 249
The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the te…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 217
After a period of relative calm in congressional elections prior to 2006, America has experienced a series of highly competitive, volatile national e…
8 months, 1 week ago
Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
Episode 218
The African Union's threat to lead African states' mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court in 2008 marked just one of many encounters t…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1176
In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history…
8 months, 1 week ago
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Episode 142
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is on…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Episode 221
Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and th…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 55
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos w…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
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