Monthly Archives: November 2025

James Cheshire, The Library of Lost Maps – Bloomsbury, October 2025 New Books discussion with Christine Gessler – thanks to dmf for the link The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some … Continue reading →

Hugo Drochon, Elites and Democracy – Princeton University Press, January/March 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for the link A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it … Continue reading →

Filippo Del Lucchese, Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Salvador Santino Regilme and Obert Hodzi, United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance – Manchester University Press, January 2026 United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign … Continue reading →

Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty – Duke University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) The introduction is available here. In Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and … Continue reading →

Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) China’s Belt … Continue reading →