Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJane Vaynman, "Enemies in Agreement: Political Volatility and the Design of Arms Control" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2069
Why do adversaries sometimes cooperate to restrain their military competition? Why do they design arms control agreements with intrusive verification…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2066
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Christian Henderson, "Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2067
In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the Gu…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic with Mia Bennett
Episode 2065
Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is declining rapidly, wildfires …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid.
Episode 2063
This is Radio ReOrient. Welcome to our 14th season of navigating the post-Western and connecting the Islamosphere.
We begin this season with Radio Re…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Episode 2064
Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)
Episode 2062
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: Wha…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2061
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former."
So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 2060
An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility (U Minnesota Press, 2026) …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
What's Global about Sven Beckert's Capitalism (Paul Kramer, JP)
Episode 2059
John is joined by the brilliant and affable Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt (The Blood of Government) to discuss Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 202…
6 months, 4 weeks ago