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Back to SearchHow Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
Episode 31
In this episode Licia Cianetti talks to Johannes Gerschewski about his book The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule (Cambridge UP, 2023). We discuss how au…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 208
American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) analyzes the roots of widesprea…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 589
The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants na…
1 year, 5 months ago
Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 587
Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyon…
1 year, 5 months ago
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 586
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned …
1 year, 5 months ago
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
Episode 45
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.
None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the demo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
Episode 584
How to find hope in these times? I spoke with political scientist Loren Goldman about the principle of political hope: why we should have hope, how t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 2027
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned …
1 year, 5 months ago
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 583
Amit Ron and Abraham Singer, both political theorists, examine the concept of the responsibilities that private companies and corporations have in a …
1 year, 5 months ago
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
Episode 582
When did the West lose its way? In 1889, when the US government carved five states out of the spawling Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and…
1 year, 5 months ago