Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVivien Marsh, "Seeking Truth in International TV News: China, CGTN, and the BBC" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 220
In Seeking Truth in International News: China, CGTN and the BBC (Routledge, 2023) Dr Vivien Marsh analyses the differences between journalistic tradi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 72
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they coul…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kazushi Minami, "People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 94
In People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024), Kazushi Minami shows how the …
2 years, 5 months ago
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 189
In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were sente…
2 years, 5 months ago
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 33
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the re…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tad Delay, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 459
The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green-washing distract the public from the climate …
2 years, 5 months ago
Tracey German, "Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Episode 271
Russia's actions in and around Ukraine in 2014, as well as its activities in Syria and further afield, sparked renewed debate about the character of …
2 years, 5 months ago
Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)
Episode 239
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 (Encounter, 2023) is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam …
2 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)
Episode 1
Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they a…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Rise of English
Episode 17
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, which has just been reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press, with a new pref…
2 years, 5 months ago