Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaking Sense of the 2023 Spanish Election
Episode 4
What were the key factors shaping the 2023 Spanish general election? How did the progressive government of Pedro Sánchez defy expectations and secure…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Episode 81
Empires are supposed to be a thing of the past but very big countries with global reach are becoming more entrenched. By 2050, almost 40 per cent of…
2 years, 8 months ago
Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 250
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the colla…
2 years, 9 months ago
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
Episode 18
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast.
Fortunately, each tells a different and compell…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 675
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Episode 19
"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second …
2 years, 9 months ago
Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 65
In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
Episode 79
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author o…
2 years, 9 months ago
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 198
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus…
2 years, 9 months ago
Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1358
When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this perio…
2 years, 9 months ago