Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)

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

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 Mich ...  Show more

William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Political Scientists William Howell and Terry Moe have a new book out that explores how the United States constitutional system has given way to the establishment of a kind of strongman presidency, disconnected in many ways from the constraints designed to keep the American presi ...  Show more

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