Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1541
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 w…
1 year, 4 months ago
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
Episode 158
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in …
1 year, 4 months ago
Enrico Ciappi, "Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938-1952)" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 40
Today’s European Union grew out of functional communities set up in the wake of world war in the 1950s.
It would shock the new White House intake to …
1 year, 5 months ago
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 39
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episod…
1 year, 5 months ago
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 41
Year 2008 marked the introduction of a new economic governance regime in the European Union (EU) in response to the global financial crisis. Politici…
1 year, 5 months ago
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 256
Viktoriya Fedorchak's The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power (Routledge, 2024) provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukrain…
1 year, 5 months ago
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 508
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Christina L. Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 117
Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs: The …
1 year, 5 months ago
Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 154
Frank Trentmann’s Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constit…
1 year, 5 months ago
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 39
Forty years ago, Schengen - a wine-making village at the tripoint border of Luxembourg, France, and Germany - made European history when diplomats fr…
1 year, 5 months ago