Podcast Episodes

Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age

The University of Chicago Press, 2024

Kenneth Lowande

Political Scientist Ke…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that had…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

In Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), Lisa Björkman invites our attention to political form and how th…

2 months ago

Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law

International law scholars are often among the sharpest critics of the Trump administration—but what if the usual story misses something essential? I…

2 months ago

How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions

Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape …

2 months ago

Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gr…

2 months ago

India’s Democratic Republic in Flux

In this episode of Democracy Dialogues, co-host Maya Tudor speaks with Yogendra Yadav – political thinker, activist, and one of India’s most prominen…

2 months ago

Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)

Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections (Routledge, 2026) assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19…

2 months ago

Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982

In today’s episode from the Vault, we revisit Nadine Gordimer’s James Lecture on the political landscape of South Africa, presented at the New York I…

2 months ago

Competing Visions for International Order

Are we living in an era of competing international orders? A new book, entitled Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Di…

2 months ago