Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of the Sacred Nation: A Discussion with Anna M. Grzymała-Busse
Episode 69
When it comes to the development of Western Europe there was religion and then there was science. That is how the story is generally told but Anna Gr…
2 years, 11 months ago
Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)
Episode 13
From 2-13 March 2022 - only a week into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine - Russian forces tried and failed to take and hold Voznesensk, a smal…
2 years, 11 months ago
James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 1334
In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)
Episode 241
In his timely My Russia: War or Peace? (RiverRun Press, 2023), Mikhail Shishkin provides a searing account of Russian political culture that explains…
2 years, 11 months ago
Joscha Abels, "The Politics of the Eurogroup: Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 12
Before this century's first global financial crisis struck Europe in 2007-2012, only people in the Brussels bubble had heard of the Eurogroup. By the…
3 years ago
The Future of Leadership: A Discussion with Amanda Goodall
Episode 67
Do experts perform better than generalists? In the midst of the fraught 2016 Brexit campaign one of the most British senior British politicians argui…
3 years ago
Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 113
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 (Stanford UP, 2023) investigates the political and social imaginaries of 'terrorism' in early twentie…
3 years ago
"We couldn't accept that Spain could do better than Italy" with Vincenzo Visco
Episode 8
Four months after taking office in May 1996, Italian prime minister Romano Prodi flew to Valencia for a bilateral summit with his Spanish counterpart…
3 years ago
Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 27
With the defeat of France in 1940 by the Germans during World War II, its status as a world power was deeply shaken. It wasn't until the liberation b…
3 years ago
Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 77
Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around renewable power, sparking a global revolution in s…
3 years ago