Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRuth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 180
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, G…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alina Nychyk, "Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015" (Ibidem Press, 2023)
Episode 33
Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015 (Ibidem Press, 2023) investigates the making of …
2 years, 7 months ago
Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 209
Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to…
2 years, 7 months ago
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
Episode 13
In their handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the decades, U.S. officials have displayed a “systemic blind spot” by alleviating pre…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 228
Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford UP, 2020) tells…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)
Episode 342
Power Structures in International Politics (Low 8, 2023) presents an original perspective on the dynamics underlying world events, approaching intern…
2 years, 7 months ago
Adam Dean, "Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 707
How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic gov…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 91
This is an ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism over the 20th century. In Imperial Material: N…
2 years, 8 months ago
Eline van Ommen, "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 208
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023) tells the story of the Sandi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 176
Empires are one of the most common forms of political structure in history—yet no empire is alike. We have our “standard” view of empire: perhaps the…
2 years, 8 months ago