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Back to SearchHave We Entered a New Era of African Politics and International Relations?
Episode 6
Is the recent resurgence of military coups reshaping politics in sub-Saharan Africa? Is faith in multiparty elections waning among citizens? And how …
2 years, 4 months ago
Stephen Boucher et al., "The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 695
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance (Routledge, 2023) explores the concepts, methodologies, and implicatio…
2 years, 4 months ago
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 694
Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Episode 33
Michael W. Doyle's book Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright, 2023) offers an urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
Episode 133
A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavior…
2 years, 4 months ago
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 693
In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic state…
2 years, 4 months ago
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
Episode 206
Japan has historically maintained extended periods of isolationist policies and continues to uphold some of the strictest immigration laws in the wor…
2 years, 4 months ago
Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 215
Despite theories to the contrary, religious nationalism, and the use of religion to determine membership in the national community, has continued to …
2 years, 4 months ago
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
Episode 118
"The Slippery Slope to a Multiculturalism of Caste"
Professor Balmurli Natrajan has long studied questions of caste, nationalism and fascism in the In…
2 years, 4 months ago
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Episode 692
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril i…
2 years, 4 months ago