Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 350
The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, just…
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Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 472
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperat…
1 year, 8 months ago
On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations
Episode 10
In this episode, host SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr Qingfei Yin, SEAC Associate and Assistant Professor of International History at LSE. Dr …
1 year, 8 months ago
Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
Episode 18
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustra…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 282
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising playe…
1 year, 8 months ago
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 281
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
Episode 26
The Republican Party held its nominating convention a week ago in Milwaukee, formally nominating former President Donald Trump as the standard-bearer…
1 year, 8 months ago
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Episode 65
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 537
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary …
1 year, 8 months ago
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Episode 189
"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that …
1 year, 8 months ago