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Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)

9/11/2026 • 47 min

While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreign enemies this century, the quest to identify and destroy real or imagined threats to national security has long been a part of US history. Drawing on six case studies, Professor Michael E. Neagle spotlights the commonalities of how the United States has leveraged po… Play episode

William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the …
Voices from North Korea: Refugees Tell Their Stories
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal…
Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics …
Jieun Baek, "Privileged But Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances …
Nikhil Kalyanpur, "Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite C…
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice"…
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a …
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans wit…
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin…
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of…
Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go …
After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller
Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 202…
Mark Leonard, "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (Polity P…
Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party…
Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambr…
Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atom…
Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Ru…
Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Ve…
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements…
Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporati…
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering,…
Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the…
Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Res…
Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion…
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshapin…
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Tele…
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authorit…
Adam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explo…
Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Ter…
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Fram…
Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary L…
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabine…
Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon …
Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of To…
US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Com…
Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identi…
Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP,…
Dan Altman, "Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945" (Co…
Democratic Backsliding and Resistance: Poland’s Civil Society, Electoral S…
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy wit…
Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identi…

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