New Books in Political Science
Interviews with Political Scientists about their New Books
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- Update frequency
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- 1077
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Iqra Shagufta Cheema, ed., "The Other #MeToos" (Oxford UP, 2023)
From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and …
00:38:26 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to further particular political projects? In this epis…
00:33:12 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
How do we talk about China? It’s a question every analyst, academic, policymaker, and reporter probably needs to ask themselves.
Is China, as some of the hawks claim, an existential threat to the wor…
00:40:17 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics or sovereign power. Or has it? In Rooted Globalis…
00:55:41 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023).
The argument for metaethical relativism--the view that there is no single true or most justified mo…
01:03:59 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (Verso, 2021), Patel retells Britain's recent his…
01:01:24 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a current or former partner every day in the United Sta…
01:13:18 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of tho…
01:17:19 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
50 years ago, anarchism was written off by some as a set of outdated idealistic ideas that had no contemporary relevance. Then came protests at events such as World Trade Organisation meetings – prot…
00:35:13 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
Coups and the Threat of “Feel Good” Militarism in Africa
Why are we seeing a rise in coups in Africa and growing debate about the possible benefits of military rule? What are the roots of “feel good” militarism and how much of a threat does this pose to ci…
00:33:13 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one express…
00:33:03 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Emilee Booth Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, has a new book that examines the idea of the vote, and what this experience means for citizens, for the structur…
00:52:19 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
The Shadow War between America and Russia
Western analysts and media often assess the prospect that Moscow might use nuclear weapons as the war in Ukraine grinds on, possibly to a flailing Russia’s disadvantage. George Beebe, though, injects…
01:02:02 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and s…
00:49:37 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen.
Providing a comprehensive critical …
00:30:45 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (U California Press,…
00:37:44 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork The Lord of the Rings delighted so many of us as children, yet it and its vast body of accompanying work, such as the Silmarillion, contain a rich depth not well understoo…
01:02:51 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview…
00:32:44 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue: Indonesia and Beyond
Inequality has always been key to understanding Indonesia’s development. But this is a multidimensional issue, and one that has manifested in vastly different ways in Indonesia over the years: from l…
00:28:01 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
India, a Non-Aligned Member of the International System?
We kick off our Fall 2023 season of International Horizons with Upendra Choudhury from Aligarh Muslim University discussing the role of India in the contemporary international system. Prof. Choudhury…
00:33:42 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
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