Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 751
A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burden…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 788
According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
Episode 41
When the African Union was founded in 2002, it promised to deliver a more united, prosperous, and people-centred continent. Two decades later, Africa…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
Episode 264
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relation…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)
Episode 146
The protection and restoration of cultural heritage is essential, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones. Armed conflicts frequently result i…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Episode 41
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and s…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
What Democracy Does… and Does Not Do
Episode 745
This week on Democratic Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl welcomes Maya Tudor, Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Episode 744
At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922–1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 787
Political Scientists Jack Greenberg (Yale University) and John Dearborn (Vanderbilt University) have a new book that focuses on the idea of president…
1 year ago
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 742
Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the e…
1 year ago