Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East with Sean Mathews (Hurst, 2025)
Episode 2157
Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of …
15 hours ago
Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 2156
Wartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will af…
15 hours ago
Standing Up to Trump: Canada and the Future of U.S.-Canadian Relations
Episode 2155
How has Donald Trump’s return to the White House transformed the relationship between Canada and the United States? In this episode of International …
2 days, 15 hours ago
AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2154
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, an…
2 days, 15 hours ago
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 2153
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Interna…
1 week ago
Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 2152
Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the first in-depth, English-language study of Romania's role in the Lit…
1 week, 1 day ago
Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 2151
Why would a government bother to go after groups that carry no weapons and hold no power? Suparna Chaudhry argues that the answer says a lot about wh…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 2150
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics (Routledge, 2026) is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated ide…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 2149
Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as tech…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros
Episode 2148
As the United Nations faces mounting geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and new global challenges, what would meaningful reform actually loo…
3 weeks, 4 days ago