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Back to SearchJeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 1434
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on…
2 years, 6 months ago
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 233
In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and form…
2 years, 6 months ago
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 182
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make clear…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Episode 29
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor mark…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)
Episode 232
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue op…
2 years, 6 months ago
Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 213
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Marc Edelman…
2 years, 6 months ago
Louis Howard Porter, "Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 265
Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organisations. Although it had…
2 years, 6 months ago
Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
Episode 92
Why do great powers go to war? Why are non-violent, diplomatic options not prioritised? Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Po…
2 years, 6 months ago
Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 217
How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to them by international law? How does the immunity e…
2 years, 7 months ago
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Episode 180
It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British–and to extend the early 20th century version of …
2 years, 7 months ago