Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation – trans. Damion Searls, Princeton University Press, April 2025 Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, … Continue reading →

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings – eds. Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, Princeton University Press, Sept/Nov 2025 The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, … Continue reading →