New Left Project discusses “Logic of Discipline”
Today’s lead article on the New Left Project website, by Tom Mills, discusses The Logic of Discipline and the “dynamics of neoliberal governance.”
Jan 1
Article in PA Times on default and constitutional change
I’ve contributed an article to the November/December issue of PA Times, examining how the default crisis of the 1840s produced constitutional change in the United States. Read the article.
Presentation for SPSA conference on “Large Forces”
I’ll be presenting my Large Forces paper at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans on January 11. The slides for the January 11 presentation are here. The monograph is available here.
Darden’s Dean recommends AFGD
Robert F. Bruner, Dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has put America’s First Great Depression on his 2013 book recommendation list. The book “gives an excellent account of the awful wreckage” of the depression of the 1840s, Bruner says.
Interview about End of Protest on Hearsay Culture
I’ve just recorded an interview about The End of Protest with David Levine, host of the radio interview show and podcast series Hearsay Culture. The interview will air on KZSU-FM on Wednesday, November 27 at 4pm PST / 7pm EST. The interview is also available online here.
“Large Forces” updated, published in Kindle format
My Large Forces monograph has been revised. It is now available in Kindle as well as paperback format.
Publishers Weekly on launch of Cornell Selects series with “End of Protest”
Publishers Weekly has a story about the launch of Cornell University Press’ new Cornell Selects imprint. The End of Protest is the first title in the series.
An FOIA request, answered ten years later
Back around the turn of the millennium, I was doing a lot of writing on freedom of information laws and other topics relating to governmental openness. 
About 2001, I learned that NATO was overhauling its fifty-year-old policy on the handling of information shared among NATO member countries. The work was being handled by a body called the Ad Hoc Working Group for the Fundamental Review of NATO Security Policy (AHWG-FRNSP). Read more
“Large Forces” presentation at NECoPA
I presented my Large Forces monograph at the Northeast Conference on Public Administration on November 2. The Powerpoint version of the presentation is here. I’ll be revising the manuscript before I discuss it again at the Southern Political Science Association’s meeting in New Orleans in January. Here are key items to be addressed in the revision, following the very helpful conversation at NECoPA: Read more
The End of Protest now available on Kindle
The End of Protest is now available on Kindle. You can also watch the short video about the ebook here.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
