Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
Episode 65
The word "narrative" is now so frequently heard that some think it over used. Perhaps its ubiquity results from it being so relevant – what used to b…
3 years ago
R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1325
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gat…
3 years ago
Osman Balkan, "Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 56
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in…
3 years ago
Negotiating Decolonization: The Limits of a Fairy Tale
Episode 123
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagre…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 86
Is there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really? Hilary Frances Aked's book Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palest…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Future of Wales: A Discussion with Will Hayward
Episode 63
Will Wales ever become an independent country? The UK’s other constituent parts – Scotland and Northern Ireland - seem more likely to breakaway: the …
3 years, 1 month ago
Arthur Snell, "How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan (1997-2021)" (Canbury Press, 2022)
Episode 169
Arthur Snell's book How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan (1997-2021) (Canbury Press, 2022) critically asse…
3 years, 1 month ago
The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit: A Conversation with Ian Morris
Season 2 Episode 58
How did Britain become a global superpower? Historian and classicist Ian Morris thinks geography has a lot to do with it. Prof. Morris discusses his …
3 years, 1 month ago
Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France
Episode 234
Where lay the fissures of Soviet power in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Why did France fail in its postwar efforts to make its African colonies…
3 years, 1 month ago
Algeria and France: Grievances and the Effects of Decolonialism
Episode 121
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's director, John Torpey interviewed Laetitia Bucaille about the factors that explain variation in rese…
3 years, 1 month ago