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Episode 151
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the Europea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)
Episode 14
Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am pleas…
1 year, 9 months ago
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 36
From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. Although…
1 year, 9 months ago
Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 450
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 56
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
1 year, 10 months ago
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
Episode 20
After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episo…
1 year, 10 months ago
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Episode 36
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the Europea…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
Episode 115
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his …
1 year, 10 months ago
Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 35
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the st…
1 year, 10 months ago
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 98
Who is in charge? In The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparativ…
1 year, 10 months ago