Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAll About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy
Episode 15
Election campaigns are becoming ever more expensive, with many parties and candidates spending large sums of money on advertising, campaign materials…
2 years, 1 month ago
Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 718
Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democr…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
Episode 147
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profes…
2 years, 1 month ago
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
Episode 220
How do Asian nations exercise soft power in the Baltics? Soft power is a political strategy to influence other international relations actors by usin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
Episode 151
In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening g…
2 years, 1 month ago
Agnieszka Pasieka and Paweł Rodak, "Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Episode 209
Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of eith…
2 years, 1 month ago
Lawrence Freedman, "Modern Warfare: Lessons from Ukraine" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 1439
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II.
More than any other m…
2 years, 1 month ago
Illia Ponomarenko, "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 32
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbere…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jen Stout, "Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War" (Polygon, 2024)
Episode 31
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories.
Although life kept getti…
2 years, 2 months ago
Éric Fassin, "State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race: Illiberal France and Beyond" (CEU Press, 2024)
Episode 13
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Éric Fassin (Université Paris 8) to discu…
2 years, 2 months ago