Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl, "After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 361
The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure…
1 year, 10 months ago
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
Episode 30
Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monet…
1 year, 10 months ago
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
Episode 220
How do Asian nations exercise soft power in the Baltics? Soft power is a political strategy to influence other international relations actors by usin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
Episode 151
In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening g…
1 year, 10 months ago
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 150
In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld, "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 716
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton UP, 2024) traces the political history of American po…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)
Episode 1
Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they a…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Climate Crisis as a Problem of Collective Action: A Discussion with Dana Fisher
Episode 145
In this episode of International Horizons, Professor Dana Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and Professor in…
1 year, 11 months ago
Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 9
South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilisat…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson
Episode 14
Development is political but what does that mean for how we solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today? A pathbreaking new book, The…
1 year, 11 months ago