Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80
Episode 86
What is liberalism, and what thinkers shaped it? Does it take a stance on moral and religious issues? What is its relationship with nationalism and p…
2 years, 6 months ago
Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
Episode 126
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Rob Schneider, Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 116
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison (Pluto Press, 2022) is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from m…
2 years, 6 months ago
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 220
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 11
Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprising…
2 years, 6 months ago
Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 235
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle Eas…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 1369
The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023) by Dr. Tariq D. Khan e…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Episode 81
Empires are supposed to be a thing of the past but very big countries with global reach are becoming more entrenched. By 2050, almost 40 per cent of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 679
The idea of “hybrid sovereignty” describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contra…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stephenie Foster and Susan A. Markham, "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 79
In 2014, Sweden announced the world’s first “feminist foreign policy,” an approach more than two dozen other nations have since adopted. But differen…
2 years, 6 months ago