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New Books in Political Science

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Recent Guests

Mark Stout
Author and former historian at the International Spy Museum
Johns Hopkins University and former member of the US National Security Community
Episode: Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Caillan Davenport
Roman historian at the Australian National University
Australian National University
Episode: Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jon Lindsay
Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech
Episode: Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Alex Prichard
Associate Professor of International Political History in the Department of Politics at Exeter University
Exeter University
Episode: Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Ning Leng
Assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Episode: Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
Dr. Frank Bié
Cultural anthropologist and geographer, program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies.
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Dr. Charlene Makeley
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, focuses on state building and cultural politics.
Reed College
Episode: Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Dr. Lisa Min
Anthropologist working on the relationship between visuality and politics in and out of North Korea.
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Jens Ludwig
Leading scholar of Crime and Public Policy at the University of Chicago and Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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Caleb Zakarin
Editor of the New Books Network

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 153 ratings
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    Fine selection of relevant books, concise reviews and well informed discussion of conclusions.

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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.

    Podcast Addict
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    curious
    4 years ago
  • John Yoo?

    No.

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    Concerned Political Scientist
    United States5 years ago
  • Syrian

    Big thank you Political Science.

    To Blumenthal’s critics:

    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.”

    Apple Podcasts
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    A Syrian NoOne
    United States6 years ago
  • Brilliant

    excellent resource for new academic pol-sci books and ideas

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    United Kingdom6 years ago
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Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: Is there anything further we want to discuss on that in terms of how emperors reacted to all of this?
Some emperors remained dignified and silent, while others, like Augustus, actively responded to gossip by distributing their own pamphlets.
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: Do we see rumors building into anything larger like protests?
Definitely, protests arise when communities share fears regarding harsh taxes or troop levies, leading to political engagement.
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: How does this information move around and interact?
The Roman Emperor issued laws and letters through an imperial courier system and required them to be read out publicly to ensure information disseminated effectively.
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: What actually is the difference between them (rumor and gossip)?
Rumors are sense-making when we lack full information, while gossip evaluates personal lives and characters, showing our own social mores.
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
I'm a Roman historian working at the Australian National University in Canberra, and I decided to write this book because I've always been fascinated by Roman emperors and the stories told about them.

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