Podcast Episodes

Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)

Political Scientist Angela K. Lewis-Maddox has pulled together an important and useful edited volume focusing on black women political scientists and…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)

Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation Bristol UP, 2022) By Timothy Stacey

In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey’s …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)

Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again, but actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become G…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the survei…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Human rights are among our most pressing issues today. But rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

About the Book

Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political co…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)

The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores the under-appreciated divis…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

How do Small States Navigate and Shape the Liberal World Order? A conversation with Dylan Loh

Globally, the liberal international order has been under pressure for quite some time, but we often tend to discuss this in relation to big internati…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

The May 2025 Mid-Term Elections in the Philippines

Today’s episode focuses on the mid-term elections in the Philippines which were held in May of this year, including all local elected positions, all …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contempo…

9 months, 3 weeks ago