Podcast Episodes
Back to Search250 Years of Special Providence: On American Grand Strategy Since the Declaration with Walter Russell Mead
Episode 2107
To celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, Madison’s Notes is having a special Fourth of July episode to close out the season. So in Episode 12 of …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2106
The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and…
4 months ago
Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 2104
Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adher…
4 months, 1 week ago
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Episode 2105
Indonesia is often framed as a key arena of China-Japan-US competition in the Second Cold War. In this episode, we talk with Trissia Wijaya about her…
4 months, 1 week ago
Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL Press, 2026)
Episode 2103
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the University College London and a founder of the Global Informality Project. Her research…
4 months, 1 week ago
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 2102
An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries.
Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Episode 2101
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for sup…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
Episode 2100
Anniversaries provide opportunities to take stock and reflect. It is now ten years since voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots in a referen…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)
Episode 2098
In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)
Episode 2099
In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant …
4 months, 3 weeks ago