Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 2147
Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger with A. Wess Mitchell (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2146
Great Power Diplomacy. The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger (Princeton UP, 2025) is a captivating history of diplomacy—and an ur…
1 month ago
The Return of the Great Powers with Brendan Simms (Basic Books, 2026)
Episode 2145
From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the…
1 month ago
Compromised Coalitions: The Paradox of Postconflict Power Sharing in Africa with Alexander Noyes (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Episode 2144
When an election turns violent and neither side will concede, why is the usual answer to put both sides in the same government?
Alex Noyes has spent n…
1 month ago
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
Episode 2143
Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing prospect b…
1 month ago
Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2142
Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing …
1 month ago
James A Harmon et al., "A Daring Enterprise: The US, Post-Revolutionary Egypt, and a Partnership That Defied the Odds" (American U in Cairo Press, 2026)
Episode 2141
What happens when the United States launches an unconventional foreign aid program in the aftermath of a national uprising? In this behind-the-scenes…
1 month ago
Michael R. Fischbach, "I Did It for My Country: Sirhan Sirhan, Palestine, and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 2140
In June 1968, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan B. Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, marking yet another killing…
1 month, 1 week ago
Stefano Recchia, "Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 2139
When powerful states go to war, why do they bother asking permission? In Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the U…
1 month, 1 week ago
Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 2138
In this episode of New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with historian Giuseppe Motta about Jewish Refugees and the International Community Be…
1 month, 1 week ago