Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
Episode 89
The Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era started the retreat of the state. Privatisation and deregulation meant power was handed over to corporations and m…
2 years, 4 months ago
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 691
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second A…
2 years, 4 months ago
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 214
In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała-B…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 176
Despite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent dec…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Episode 136
Historians have tended to view the Cold War as a global ideological confrontation between an expansionist communist Soviet Union and a capitalist Uni…
2 years, 4 months ago
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Episode 2
In my talk with Barry Gewen on his 2020 book, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W. W. Norton, 2020), we explore the dispar…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sandra Destradi, "Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 83
Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through’…
2 years, 4 months ago
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 242
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy.
For more than three …
2 years, 4 months ago
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 82
We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was cle…
2 years, 4 months ago
Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Episode 244
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revol…
2 years, 4 months ago