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Back to SearchAggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 280
A wargaming renaissance has been underway in the US military. Having proven to be the most effective recruitment tool of the 21st century, games have…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ignacio G. Galán, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design a…
9 months, 1 week ago
On Bullshit in Politics
Today we’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our guest is Michael Patrick Lynch, Provost Professor o…
9 months, 1 week ago
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 130
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, alrea…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive instit…
9 months, 1 week ago
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Two juxtaposed years frame the subject matter of Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile. In one, 1973, General Augusto Pinoch…
9 months, 1 week ago
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
Today I’m thrilled to announce a new partnership with Genocide Studies International. GSI is one of the preeminent journals in the field of Genocide …
9 months, 1 week ago
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
What does the 'rule of law' really mean in China? How does it shape the country’s politics, both at home and on the world stage? And why should it ma…
9 months, 1 week ago
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford University…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast I sat down with Dr Doina Anca Cretu to talk about her first book, Foreign Aid and State Building i…
9 months, 2 weeks ago