Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVictoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
Episode 216
Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West influ…
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Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic val…
1 year, 5 months ago
Gabriel Gavin, "Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst, 2025)
Episode 38
From the collapse of the Soviet Union until late 2023, Armenia and Azerbaijan were fighting unrelenting hot and cold wars over Nagorno-Karabakh - a t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 138
Thinking together the histories of European integration and African decolonization, Emily Marker's Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belon…
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Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 112
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In N…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1529
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conser…
1 year, 6 months ago
Transatlantic Tensions: Trump’s Return and Europe’s Far-Right Resurgence
Episode 157
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews journalist Mattia Ferraresi about the implications of a potential seco…
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How to Tackle Political Violence
Episode 26
In the United States, France, and Germany, political violence has been rising. This is particularly troubling as we lack compelling explanations for …
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Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 1513
Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History (Routledge, 2022) is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries.…
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Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 139
The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being excl…
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