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Back to SearchStuart A. Reid, "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 36
Today I talked to Stuart Reid about his new book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Knopf, 2023).
It was su…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Climate Crisis as a Problem of Collective Action: A Discussion with Dana Fisher
Episode 145
In this episode of International Horizons, Professor Dana Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and Professor in…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson
Episode 14
Development is political but what does that mean for how we solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today? A pathbreaking new book, The…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lisa Langdon Koch, "Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 94
Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapons. These paths have been difficult to predict an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 101
For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and Chin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Chris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 218
The Future of War Crimes Justice (Melville House, 2024), journalist and war correspondent Chris Stephen takes a colourful look at the erratic history…
2 years, 5 months ago
Choi Chatterjee, "Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 270
Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022) uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. …
2 years, 5 months ago
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 270
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on…
2 years, 5 months ago
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 149
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s book Dis…
2 years, 5 months ago
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
Episode 146
Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other countries, helps us understand this important momen…
2 years, 5 months ago