Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCharles R. Shipan and Craig Volden, "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 130
Building on a deep theoretical foundation and drawing on numerous examples, Volden and Shipan examine how policies spread across the American states …
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Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 186
In Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability. Russia 2008–2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Regina Smyth reveals how much elector…
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Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 46
As the old cliché goes, “there must have been something in the water.” A new book by historian Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social …
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David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 185
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Rus…
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Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1134
Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) is at the forefront of a new…
4 years, 5 months ago
Durba Ghosh, "Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 137
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) by Durba Ghosh uncovers the …
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, "Quagmire in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 1129
In Quagmire in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Dr. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl provides the first treatment of quagmire in civil war, moving b…
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James Koranyi, "Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 147
Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century …
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N. J. Enfield, "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 93
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehe…
4 years, 5 months ago
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 66
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
The relationship between religion and state p…
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