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Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 2026)

8/24/2026 • 39 min

Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Edward Goldring delves into one of the key tactics that autocrats deploy to maintain power: the removal of individuals from within the regime. From Kim Jong Un's execution of his uncle to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's removal of over a hundred Turkish generals, purges bear significant… Play episode

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…
Vignesh Rajahmani, "The Dravidian Pathway: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (…
What are the Limits of Political Speech? A Conversation with Erik J. Olsen
Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics
Martina Baradel, "21st Century Yakuza: Death of Japanese Organised Crime" …
Carrie LeVan, "Neighborhoods Matter: How Place and People Affect Political…
Anna Terwiel offers A Moment of No to the Prison-Industrial Complex (JP)
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford U…
The Once and Future Republic: On Cicero, Locke, and the Making of America …
Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age o…
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Why Democracy’s Troubles Should Come as No Surprise
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change De…
Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements:…

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