Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 134
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appe…
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Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 203
This book is a tour de force. In The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr Paolo Sandro expl…
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Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
Episode 129
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Patrick Weil, author of The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, …
2 years, 5 months ago
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
Episode 6
“Irrationality rules” in war, Michael Mann writes in his magisterial 2023 book, On Wars (Yale UP, 2023), a history that begins with the Roman Republi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett, "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
Episode 53
Listen to this engaging interview with Cheryl Lawther, who talks about why the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar, 2023) is one …
2 years, 5 months ago
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 168
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.
From the clima…
2 years, 5 months ago
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 682
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian A…
2 years, 5 months ago
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
Episode 202
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual sta…
2 years, 5 months ago
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 52
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law est…
2 years, 5 months ago
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 201
Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate ter…
2 years, 5 months ago