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Political Science March 1, 2021

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America

Bradford Pearson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Many scholars have interrogated the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII – with an eye to understanding the particular type of racism that allowed the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt …

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Southeast Asian Studies March 1, 2021

Fighting for Virtue

Justice and Politics in Thailand

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Anyone who has taken any interest in the politics of Thailand at all in the last two decades could not help but have noticed the part that the country’s judiciary …
Political Science February 25, 2021

Madam President?

Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House

Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, both scholars of gender and politics as well as scholars of the American Presidency, have assembled a wide array of essays[*] to revisit the …
National Security February 23, 2021

Strategic Instincts

The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

Dominic D. P. Johnson

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
In Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2020), Dominic Johnson challenges the assumption that cognitive biases led to policy failures, disasters …
Political Science February 22, 2021

Separate But Faithful

The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture

Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we understand the nuances of efforts by Christian conservatives to affect American law – and evaluate their success? What lessons do they hold for other social movements? Dr …
European Studies February 19, 2021

The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union

Signe Rehling Larsen

Hosted by Tim Jones
“The autarkic European nation-state, if it ever existed, was the exception rather than the rule. Nevertheless it is the myth of the self-sufficient nation-state that lies at the heart of …
Political Science February 18, 2021

Violence Against Women in Politics

Mona Lena Krook

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Mona Lena Krook examines the unique phenomena of violence against women in politics, which is distinct from the broader concern and issue of violence against women in general. Krook pulls …
National Security February 18, 2021

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Nicole Perlroth

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spy’s arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me …
East Asian Studies February 17, 2021

Comfort Women Activism

Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State

Eika Tai

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Eika Tai’s Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) tackles the complex histories of Japanese “military sexual violence” and the activism by women …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 15, 2021

How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy

A Discussion with Michael Hanchard

Michael G. Hanchard

Hosted by Marshall Poe
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination …
Postscript February 15, 2021

Postscript

Trump, Trumpism, and the Future of the GOP

Lilly J. Goren and Susan Liebell

Hosted by Lilly Goren
As the impeachment trial ends, Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell explore the future of the GOP with two media-savvy political scientists. Dr. Jonathan Bernstein is familiar to many as the …
Gender Studies February 15, 2021

Recasting the Vote

How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Cathleen D. Cahill

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Women of color shaped the U.S. suffrage movement, framing women’s right to vote as fundamental to parallel movements for racial justice and citizenship reforms. In a collective biography of six …
Communications February 12, 2021

How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia

Nathaniel Greenberg

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with …
Political Science February 11, 2021

The Economic Other

Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky have written an incredibly timely and fascinating study of our understanding of income inequality in the United States, and how this understanding contributes to the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

It Will Be Fun and Terrifying

Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia

Fabrizio Fenghi

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin …
National Security February 10, 2021

How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

Nina Jankowicz

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Barely a month after the riot on the Capitol Building, the United States is no more adept at fending off foreign information operations than it was four years ago, when …
Middle Eastern Studies February 9, 2021

Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt

The Politics of Hegemony

Sara Salem

Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
In this conversation, Sara Salem, author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 2020), talks to host Yi Ning Chang about temporality, capitalism, and hegemony …
Economics February 8, 2021

Neoliberalism

A Very Short Introduction

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy

Hosted by Tim Jones
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ‘neoliberalism’ knows exactly how it feels …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel February 8, 2021

Harpoon

Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specifically, the widespread upheaval, uncertainty and global …
Political Science February 8, 2021

Break It Up

Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

Richard Kreitner

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Journalists, scholars, politicians, and citizens often assume that calls for secession are political or historical aberrations. Our founding myth is that the Civil War divided an otherwise united nation and …