Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 187
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the B…
3 years, 1 month ago
Matthew Rhodes-Purdy et al., "The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 656
How do we explain the rise of populism, extremism, and conspiracy theory in the Americas and Europe? Why do members of a society come to feel this st…
3 years, 1 month ago
Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 11
"The Ukrainian nation will emerge from this war more united and certain of its identity than at any other point in its modern history," writes Serhii…
3 years, 1 month ago
"He was definitely not amused" with Lex Hoogduin
Episode 7
On 1 June, the European Central Bank will celebrate its 25th birthday. After its tumultuous teenage years, it's easy to forget its first uncertain st…
3 years, 1 month ago
Mark Galeotti, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 160
Mark Galeotti's book Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (Bloomsbury, 2022) is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involve…
3 years, 1 month ago
Gönül Tol, "Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 214
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's pugnacious president, is now the country's longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. Thi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 654
In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing launched the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Successive UN Security Council resolut…
3 years, 2 months ago
Why do Transatlantic Relations Matter?
Episode 118
This week on International Horizons, we present RBI's director John Torpey's interview with David Gill, General Consul of Germany, in New York to cel…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with a range of responses in Eastern Europe – with some leaders offering muted solace to Vladimir Putin …
3 years, 2 months ago
Paul Hansbury, "Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War" (Hurst, 2023)
Episode 10
The war in Ukraine is entering what could well be its decisive phase as Kyiv prepares a counter-offensive and Russia announces plans to deploy tactic…
3 years, 2 months ago