Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNora Fisher-Onar, "Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 2137
Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges a widespread tendency to limit …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 2136
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its prev…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 2135
Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Envi…
2 months ago
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2134
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow off…
2 months ago
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2133
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty million years in the making is succumbing to warming oceans. Kelp forests are lar…
2 months ago
After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller
Episode 2132
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at 73 years old, is still very much alive, yet the “After Putin” conversation is an active one inside and outside of R…
2 months ago
Chenchen Zhang, "Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 2131
With commentary on the emergence of a ‘multipolar’ world, of transatlantic rifts and the rise of ‘middle powers’ ubiquitous, tales of the decline o…
2 months ago
Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 2130
Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Edward Goldring delves into one of the key tactics that autocrats de…
2 months ago
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Episode 2129
Steve Feldstein's Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare (St. Martin's Press, 2026) opens with a jux…
2 months, 1 week ago
Mark Leonard, "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (Polity Press, 2026)
Episode 2128
"Expansive visions. Universal institutions. Ideas of progress. It was on the back of these that the West surged ahead and built a global order. I w…
2 months, 1 week ago