Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCharles 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
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
Episode 427
Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer The…
2 years, 4 months ago
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 32
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics (Cornell UP, 2023) examines the conditions under which the United States is wi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 689
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ba…
2 years, 4 months ago
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
Episode 23
Russia and Ukraine have alternative histories and alternative destinies. After the Soviet Union collapsed - depending on who you spoke to – they were…
2 years, 4 months ago
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 688
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 241
Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and…
2 years, 4 months ago
The US State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
Episode 131
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Bill Russo. Ass…
2 years, 4 months ago
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)
Episode 203
Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That exper…
2 years, 5 months ago