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Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)

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. ... more

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Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)

In A 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 ha... more

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The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

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 an... more

31 Jul 2026 • 34 min

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

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 Presiden... more

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Episode: Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

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Professor of political science at Marquette University

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Episode: Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Kurt Warner

Author of False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy

Vernon Press

Episode: Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)

Ambrogio Caiani

Professor, author of Flirting with Evil

Author of Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church Stage of Total War and Mobilization

Episode: Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)

Peter Loewen

The Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University; political scientist

Cornell University

Episode: US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen

Luna Sabastian

Professor, author of Fascism in India, Race, Caste, and Hindutva

Northeastern University London

Episode: Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Christopher Federico

Co-author, The Authoritarian Divide, Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate

Oxford University Press (publisher) / Political Psychology

Episode: Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Christopher Weber

Co-author, The Authoritarian Divide, Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate

Oxford University Press (publisher) / Political Psychology

Episode: Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Miglaj Czesnik

Director of the Institute of Social Science at SWPS University; Chairman of the Council of the Stefan Batory Foundation

SWPS University; Stefan Batory Foundation

Episode: Democratic Backsliding and Resistance: Poland’s Civil Society, Electoral Strategies, and Institutional Levers

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Joe Williams

Host of The New Books Network; frequent facilitator for scholarly discussions.

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Jasper Klapwijk
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Expands your horizons. Interviews of authors. They cover a lot of good books that don't get attention from the more popular podcasts or book reviews.
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Keep your dirty petrodollars, your crazed Takfiri radical militants from China, Chechnya, and from all over the world, keep the mountains of media campaigns of deception, cynicism, and lies. Keep those maniac sectarian psychos who deny the river of blood shed at the hands of your “Moderate Rebels.”
But give us “Management of Savagery.”
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excellent resource for new academic pol-sci books and ideas
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Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

Q: Can you introduce us to your framework and explain what MOC stands for?

The framework, called MOC, stands for Motivation, Opportunity and Constraints, and it helps assess how factors influence whether international courts develop strong authority relationships with their audiences.

Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Q: Can you describe what compelled you to write this book's central questions about Kazakhstani identity and how you approached gathering data on memories of 1986 and post-Soviet legacies?

The impetus came from wanting to center lived experiences and to connect personal memories with broader theoretical questions about state power, ethnicity, and nationalism, using fieldwork with interlocutors and testimonies to illuminate how identities are formed and contested in non-democratic contexts.

Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Q: All right. Well, I wondered if you'd be willing to tell us a little bit about your academic journey in general and then what compelled you to write this book.

I trained as a sociologist focused on nationalism and Central Asia, studied in the UK, and developed a fieldwork-based approach to give voice to ordinary people and to examine how state-society relations shape national identities; the book emerged from a desire to move beyond elite narratives and to document everyday lives in Central Asia.

Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Q: Can you explain what your findings showed about white voters and authoritarianism over time?

Authoritarian-led sorting into the Republican Party rose since 1992, with stronger effects during critical elections (2004, 2016, 2020); non-authoritarians moved less dramatically, often to independents, and sorting varied by race and political context.

Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Q: Can you give us a quick overview of how you went around researching and surveying for the book?

They relied heavily on the American National Election Studies, using four child-rearing questions and a long time-series to track authoritarianism, supplemented by panel data, the Voter Study Group, and several experiments to establish causal relations and to observe individual change over time.

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