Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
Episode 621
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
Episode 620
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 …
1 year, 3 months ago
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 618
As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford University…
1 year, 4 months ago
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
Episode 619
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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 617
Political Scientist Angela K. Lewis-Maddox has pulled together an important and useful edited volume focusing on black women political scientists and…
1 year, 4 months ago
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 616
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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Episode 615
Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation Bristol UP, 2022) By Timothy Stacey
In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey’s …
1 year, 4 months ago
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 614
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the survei…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 613
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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 612
About the Book
Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political co…
1 year, 4 months ago