Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 6
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor sits down with Marc Owen Jones, associate professor at Northwestern University in Qata…
1 year ago
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 759
Most people think about abortion in the context of the country they live in. In the U.S., abortion fuels debate, elections, and legislation. In China…
1 year ago
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
Episode 164
In this episode of International Horizons, Kenneth Roth, former longtime executive director of Human Rights Watch, joins RBI director John Torpey to …
1 year ago
Madhavi Devasher, "Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 272
Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation (Routledge, 2024) explains why, how, and where ethnic poli…
1 year ago
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
Episode 37
The executive directors of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of …
1 year ago
Gerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Rule of law faces serious threats to its viability in many countries. It has become a recurring topic in the media and is affecting our daily lives. …
1 year ago
Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 124
“One thing I would note about the Trumpian populists and their counterparts elsewhere in the West today is that they're a very peculiarly tribal kind…
1 year ago
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 43
Even before its rebirth as a nation in the 1990s, Serbia had acquired a reputation abroad as Russia’s stalwart Slavic ally in the Western Balkans.
Yet…
1 year ago
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Episode 142
This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton UP,…
1 year ago
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 760
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts have edited a new collection of essays, Creolizing Hannah Arendt. This edited volume dives into Hannah Arendt’s…
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