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Back to SearchThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
Episode 35
Are we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson…
3 years, 8 months ago
What is the Role of Minorities in the Modern State?
Episode 99
The existence of minorities has been an unavoidable reality of the creation of nation states that almost always have a dominant national group inscri…
3 years, 8 months ago
Camilla Hawthorne, "Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 190
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics an…
3 years, 8 months ago
Loukas Tsoukalis, "Europe's Coming of Age" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 4
The EU, writes Loukas Tsoukalis, is “a strange vehicle … unlike any others on the roads of the world, surely not a flashy vehicle – rather slow and n…
3 years, 8 months ago
How to Avoid More Damage from the Russian War on Ukraine
Episode 98
The Western coalition supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia has so far been thought to be solid and reliable, but there may be vulnerabilities in…
3 years, 8 months ago
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 623
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
Episode 33
Alexander Kirshner’s book Legitimate Opposition (Yale UP, 2022) can be seen as a reaction to the politics of Donald Trump and the questions he has ra…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
Episode 20
One of the greatest ironies of the history of Soviet rule is that, for an officially atheistic state, those in the political police and in the Politb…
3 years, 9 months ago
Is Italy Going Fascist Again? What to Expect from Meloni with Andrea Mammone
Episode 97
Italy has just held an election in which it appears that a far-right candidate from a post Fascist Party has won, and his leader will become the next…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sibel Oktay, "Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 621
From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments…
3 years, 9 months ago