Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
Episode 93
In A United Ireland: Why Unification in Inevitable and How It Will Come About (Biteback Publishing, 2017), Kevin Meagher argues that a reasoned, prag…
2 years, 5 months ago
Democracy, Great Powers, and the Russia-Ukraine War. A Discussion with Stefan Wolff
Episode 7
How helpful is the democracy-authoritarianism binary when it comes to our understanding of contemporary conflict? What is the state of the Russia-Ukr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jennifer V. Evans, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 59
In The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broad…
2 years, 5 months ago
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 26
Since February 2022, a string of books have been published about the war in Ukraine but, for the most part, these have been histories and political s…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 56
In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memor…
2 years, 6 months ago
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 25
February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale …
2 years, 6 months ago
Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government
Episode 134
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's Director John Torpey interviews Grzegorz Ekiert, Chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard…
2 years, 6 months ago
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 24
European governments are emerging from 15 years of on-again, off-again crises that upended their budgetary positions. From close to balance in 2008, …
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Episode 33
Michael W. Doyle's book Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright, 2023) offers an urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
Episode 133
A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavior…
2 years, 6 months ago