New Books in Global Ethics and Politics
Interviews with Scholars of Global Ethics and Politics about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Global Ethics and Politics about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
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- 2025-03-09 09:07
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- 2025-03-09 08:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-09 |
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023) Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail (Cambridge UP, 2023) demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the tr... |
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| 2025-03-08 |
Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil As Brazil moves toward trying former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup against democracy, the United States grapples with constitutional challenges from the new administration as well. Are these two cases of democratic backsliding comparable... |
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| 2025-03-08 | Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern ... |
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| 2025-03-06 |
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024) Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, Conditions of Violence (de Gruyter, 2024) presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ... |
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| 2025-03-04 |
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022) Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is submitted by its creators to the people or their representatives in an up or down vote determining imple... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019) There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monographic marriage of comparative and interpretive methods. In this episode of the special series New Books... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025) Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism--emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the interc... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024) Part of what makes the challenges that collectively are called the “environmental crisis” so difficult is that the vocabulary we deploy in thinking and discussing the issues emerged under social conditions that are far removed from our present. The fam... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem in Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land (U Chicago Press, 2025)... |
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| 2025-03-01 | Before the creation of the European colonial states in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia had hundreds of royal families, large and small. Today, only a small number survive. In his book, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Natio... |
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