Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1176
In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history…
1 year, 2 months ago
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Episode 142
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is on…
1 year, 2 months ago
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Episode 221
Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 648
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at…
1 year, 3 months ago
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 55
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos w…
1 year, 3 months ago
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 646
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
1 year, 3 months ago
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
Episode 645
Globalization is over. With US president Donald Trump pursuing an 'America First' agenda in trade and foreign policy, everyone now recognises the urg…
1 year, 3 months ago
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 287
Suruchi Mazumdar’s book addresses the complex relationship between India’s evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interests o…
1 year, 3 months ago
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
Episode 36
For a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic comp…
1 year, 3 months ago
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 406
Murad Idris, a political theorist in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, explores the concept of peace, the term…
1 year, 3 months ago