Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRisks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Episode 213
What happens if the geoeconomic risks of great power rivalry materialise? What can be done to prevent these potential dangers from unfolding in small…
2 years, 8 months ago
How to Stage a Coup and Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Episode 9
Why do states engage in secret statecraft and covert action? How different are these secret and covert state activities in real world settings compar…
2 years, 8 months ago
"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project
Episode 136
We begin this new season of International Horizons with an interview by RBI Director John Torpey with Neta Crawford from Oxford University and the Co…
2 years, 8 months ago
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 511
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization regularly appears in newspapers and political science scholarship. Surprisingly, historians have yet to devote…
2 years, 8 months ago
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
Episode 478
“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate. All too often, howeve…
2 years, 8 months ago
Klaus Schmider, "Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 225
Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Episode 179
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of ge…
2 years, 8 months ago
Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
Episode 12
Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to…
2 years, 8 months ago
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 224
War is often thought of mainly the concern of professional soldiers and maybe politicians as well. However, philosophers and theorists of varying typ…
2 years, 8 months ago
Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 88
Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sideli…
2 years, 9 months ago