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Back to SearchPolitics in Action 2024: Indonesia Update
Episode 95
Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, …
1 year, 10 months ago
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 214
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 722
The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States marked, for many, a return to "compassionate politics." Joe Biden had run on a platform of empath…
1 year, 10 months ago
John Keane and Baogang He, "China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 95
In China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), authors Dr. John Keane and Dr. Ba…
1 year, 10 months ago
Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
Episode 23
States are holding primaries. The Democrats and Republicans will convene in July and August but it has already been decided that the presidential rac…
1 year, 10 months ago
David Criekemans, "Geopolitics and International Relations: Grounding World Politics Anew" (Brill, 2021)
Episode 97
Although we live in a globalised world, territorially embedded factors are highly relevant in such domains as security, economy, energy, environment,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Meredith Weiss et al., "Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 146
Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 74
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren …
1 year, 10 months ago
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
Episode 464
How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate Pro…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 96
Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambrid…
1 year, 10 months ago