Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOur Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
Episode 696
This is the second episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams…
1 year, 1 month ago
Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths, "Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 695
Today’s international system is made up of states: Territorial entities with defined borders, with exclusive control within those borders, diplomatic…
1 year, 1 month ago
George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, "New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries" (Agenda, 2024)
Episode 694
The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global govern…
1 year, 1 month ago
When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
Episode 692
When do limits on majorities enhance democratic rule, and when do they undermine it? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zib…
1 year, 1 month ago
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 693
In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global…
1 year, 1 month ago
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 691
Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll se…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
Episode 690
In 388 BCE, Plato, at the age of about forty and in the midst of writing The Republic, visited for the first time the then-Greek city state of Syracu…
1 year, 1 month ago
Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 689
Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era (Cornell UP, 2021) offers a new framework for understanding Russian national…
1 year, 1 month ago
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 688
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” That saying s…
1 year, 1 month ago
Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 687
Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practice
Most Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich…
1 year, 1 month ago