Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 66
In Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press 2024), Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, pol…
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What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
Episode 30
The argument that authoritarian governments are better at dealing with the climate emergency is gaining ground, fuelled by the idea that undemocratic…
11 months ago
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 206
Today, and for the past several years, many people both here and abroad have been trying to make sense of the radical right and its financial and ide…
11 months, 1 week ago
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
Episode 149
Universities are under attack, but what exactly are the threats? How does free speech in the last 10 years compare to today? What do we stand to lose…
11 months, 1 week ago
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
Episode 41
At the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the political scientists at Bright Line Watch released their 25th report on the state…
11 months, 1 week ago
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
Episode 13
In this episode, we focus on the often-overlooked geographies of Eurasian connectivity with Dr. Wojciech Kębłowski, whose research brings attention t…
11 months, 1 week ago
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 155
In an era of globalization, international communication constantly takes place across borders, defying sovereign control as it influences opinion. Wh…
11 months, 1 week ago
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
Episode 9
On this edition of Ctrl Alt Deceit: Democracy in Danger, we are live at the Royal United Services Institute.
Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones a…
11 months, 1 week ago
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 413
The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of electio…
11 months, 1 week ago
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 126
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of e…
11 months, 1 week ago