Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 40
Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broa…
3 years, 6 months ago
Alexander Kirshner, "Legitimate Opposition" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 301
The idea of legitimate political opposition is familiar. A decent political order permits citizens, parties, and coalitions to challenge those in pow…
3 years, 7 months ago
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 211
Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) examines various forms of Russian online anti…
3 years, 7 months ago
What will be the Role of Europe in the Changing World Order?
Episode 104
The transatlantic relationship, arguably the bedrock of the world’s post-World War II international security architecture, came under significant thr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dalibor Roháč, "Governing the EU in an Age of Division" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Episode 5
"An important distinction exists between the politics of rules at which the EU is quite adept and the politics driven by events - which requires impr…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
Episode 40
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority …
3 years, 7 months ago
What is the Future of Populism?
Episode 103
The world's wealthier countries have in recent years faced challenges from right-wing populist parties and movements that may rejuvenate origins from…
3 years, 7 months ago
"Reality took its revenge" with Ramon Fernandez
Episode 2
Ramon Fernandez, the director-general of the French Treasury 2009-14, reminisces on the euro crisis years – the early signals that “something was wro…
3 years, 7 months ago
Anna von der Goltz, "The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 143
Anna von der Goltz’s The Other ‘68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany (Oxford University Press, 2021) is a history of 1968 w…
3 years, 7 months ago
Can We Square the Circle? Universalism Versus Communitarianism
Episode 102
The political Left has long faced tension regarding its universalistic commitments and those to the nation it inhabits. The dilemma is captured succi…
3 years, 7 months ago