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Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN...

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2026/08/15

Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. Margulis is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the WTO, Dr. Margulis argues that these organizations have acted as "shadow

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Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt:...

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2026/08/14

Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic(Verso Books, 2026)is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intelligence agencies. Drawing on meticulous research, it reveals the strategies deployed to suppress the revolutionary wave, from propaganda and surveillance to mass arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings. El-Hamalawy traces the power dynamics within these institutions to show how their uneasy unity was both a

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Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the...

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2026/08/14

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—the first and most famous of his books—was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences. Called a “brilliant and original inquiry” and “a genuine contribution

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Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of...

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2026/08/13

This is a really good book.Really good.Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation(Oxford UP, 2026)takes the reader on a fascinating, and perhaps unexpected, journey through Catholic hospitals, the expansion of the carceral state, and corporate and union access to the protections of First Amendment freedom of speech. All the while, Kathleen J. Frydl is rigorously constructing an understanding and positioning of the modern corporation within the governmental structures and protections of

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67:52

Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana...

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2026/08/10

This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies. We began with the significance of the 1990s as a point of departure for new work in this field and segued to the interventions made by their two edited volumes published in 2016 and 2025. We discussed the paths opened up by earlier radical historiographical paradigms, such as Subaltern Studies, which nonetheless failed to address the caste question

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58:04

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom...

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2026/08/09

Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author Eduardo Albrecht to explore the invisible, rapidly encroaching frontier of AI governance and data surveillance.Moving far beyond traditional debates about data privacy, Albrecht warns of a near future where the state and corporate partners bypass human speech entirely, relying instead on "sentiment detection" to ascribe thoughts and make decisions

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52:27

Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary...

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2026/08/09

Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations(Leiden University Press, 2026)examineshow Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering. This book asks how citizens connect to city spaces where facilities for transit, culture, and leisure have been substantially upgraded. Drawing on extensive research, Ka-ming Wu

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Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why...

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2026/08/07

Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World (Princeton University Press, 2026) reclaims this idea as the path to sustaining our life together on a changing planet, reframing our relationship to the environment not as a constraint on liberty but as its republican foundation. Giulio Boccaletti

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51:48

Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules...

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2026/08/06

Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness(Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how parties select candidates, nominate leaders, and set policy goals. Most research on party organisation pays very little attention to what happens within political parties; this book addresses this gap by examining how internal party rules and procedures shape party membership and political responsiveness. Drawing on an original dataset of party statutes

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Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How...

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2026/08/02

InA Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management(Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising powers like India and China are reshaping global peace governance. Over recent decades, both countries have deepened engagement with institutions built on liberal principles, including those related to peacebuilding. Their growing role raises critical questions about how their approaches diverge from liberal models and their impact on the domestic politics of

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Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia:...

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2026/08/02

Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion(Routledge, 2026)examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to consolidate their political control over Central Asia. Through restrictive policies and strategic manipulation, these governments reshaped the region's politics and societies during 2020-2022.This volume offers readers an insight into three key areas where Central Asia's pandemic power grab was most visible:

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The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

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2026/07/31

How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 2000s onward, and why its collapse matters more now as we see a resurgence of strategic instability and armed conflict.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

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The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of...

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2026/07/30

How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnationally? In this episode we are joined by Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan and Karin Zackari to discuss the role of digital surveillance, emotional blackmail, enforced family isolation, psychological harassment, and the imprisonment of relatives on fabricated charges by Asian authoritarian regimes seeking to control populations and narratives across

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Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female...

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2026/07/30

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional representations of this idea that we have seen over the past hundred years.The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024(Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)takes up a number of different and intriguing examples of this idea, a woman serving as president, and unpacks the various narratives to help us understand

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Adam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of...

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2026/07/28

Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy.In 1978 China had no commercial banks. Today it commands the world's largest banking system, with assets equal to 40 percent of global GDP. In Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion (Cornell University Press, 2026), Dr. Adam Y. Liu argues that this rise was not the product of market reforms but of political bargains and bureaucratic

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Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian...

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2026/07/25

Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms(Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind Russia’s dominance over its neighbors, revealing how the Kremlin weaponizes "familial system" myths to justify control, including its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. From the Tsarist empire to Putin’s digital propaganda, Dr. Bogatova examines how Russia portrays itself as a disciplining “father,” a self-sacrificing “mother,” or an “elder brother”

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Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From...

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2026/07/23

Julia Azari, Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, has a new, award-winning[*]book centering on the connection between race and the American presidency, specifically in the reaction to presidents who made progress on the issue of race in the United States.Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American Historyfocuses on four different periods in American political history and a number of different presidential administrations including: Abraham Lincoln,

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Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of...

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2026/07/23

Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing collaboration with theJournal of Democracythey discuss Leopoldo’s recent article onDemocracy in an Age of Networked Control. They discuss the technological challenges that democracy activists worldwide face today, and how some activists are rethinking their use of technology to elude the infrastructure of control and create new infrastructures for

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57:30

Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International...

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2026/07/23

Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework(Hart Publishing, 2026) by Dr. Dana Burchardt provides novel theoretical and empirical insights into this question. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the authority of international courts, drawing from law, political science and behavioural research. It develops, in Part I, a theoretical model and

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54:37

Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and...

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2026/07/22

In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but they had one thing in common: Each played tennis with the president and advised on policy matters. Roosevelt half-joked that the public would never know how much these tennis partners did to make his administration a success. Journalists dismissively called them the “Tennis Cabinet,” making light of their contribution, but Roosevelt knew

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