Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristopher J. Devine, "I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 250
During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all thos…
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Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 114
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence.
A new industrial revol…
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Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 29
One war, three collisions: Russia with Ukraine, Europe, and the US. On the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion, Michael Kimmage analyses th…
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The Future of the Chinese Military: A Discussion with James A. Siebens
Episode 98
For all the talk of China being a peaceful country with no aggressive intentions, it has behaved like most other rising powers – spending lots of mon…
2 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 340
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically u…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
Episode 217
Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty,…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 50
Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectua…
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Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard, "The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 89
Evaluation has become a key tool in assessing the performance of international organisations, in fostering learning, and in demonstrating accountabil…
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Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
Episode 5
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages.
We start from the question whether the world today is more multilingu…
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Why is Right-Wing Extremism so Widespread in Italy?
Episode 137
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Marla Stone, a historian of Italian fascism at Occidental College, on …
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