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Stefano Recchia, "Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Interventio…

9/20/2026 • 51 min

When powerful states go to war, why do they bother asking permission? In Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council (Yale University Press, 2025), Stefano Recchia argues that the answer reveals something surprising about how power actually works. Drawing on hundreds of declassified documents and more than fift… Play episode

Brian L. Porto, "Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshi…
Lily Geismer on the Democratic Party in the 1990s
Why Voters Support Politicians Who Undermine Democracy
Nora Fisher-Onar, "Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Natio…
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the …
Voices from North Korea: Refugees Tell Their Stories
Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics …
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal…
Jieun Baek, "Privileged But Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances …
Nikhil Kalyanpur, "Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite C…
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a …
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice"…
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans wit…
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of…
Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin…
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…
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshapin…
Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion…
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 …
US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen
Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of To…
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,…

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