Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 44
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the …
1 year, 2 months ago
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 360
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Univ…
1 year, 2 months ago
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Episode 298
How do separatist conflicts arise and spread? When does separatism become a cover for a foreign aggression? How do local communities respond when sta…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
Season 2 Episode 1
Live from the Frontline Club in London, Ctrl Alt Deceit is back for its second season.
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones host a fascinatin…
1 year, 2 months ago
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 206
Liberal democracies don’t age gracefully. Established systems of governance like those of the UK and the US which once served as blueprints are today…
1 year, 2 months ago
Giacinto della Cananea, "The Common Core of European Administrative Laws: Retrospective and Prospective" (Brill/NIjhoff, 2023)
Episode 6
Though European administrative laws have gained global significance in the last few decades, research which provides both theoretical analysis and or…
1 year, 3 months ago
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 43
Even before its rebirth as a nation in the 1990s, Serbia had acquired a reputation abroad as Russia’s stalwart Slavic ally in the Western Balkans.
Yet…
1 year, 3 months ago
Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma
Episode 163
In this episode, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Estonian parliamentarian and defense expert Kalev Stoicescu about the recent tensions between t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 223
East Central Europe Since 1989 (Routledge, 2025) examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequalit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 515
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma…
1 year, 3 months ago