Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFerenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
Episode 2
To many the city might seem simply a large urban area to live within, but it actually forms an important political concept and community that has bee…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
Episode 12
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias …
4 years, 1 month ago
Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 14
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy.
P…
4 years, 1 month ago
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 1196
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising sto…
4 years, 1 month ago
Liam Stanley, "Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 54
In his new and fascinating book, Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation (Manchester UP, 2022), Dr. Liam Stanley explores how, over…
4 years, 1 month ago
Central Asia Under Brussels’ and Moscow’s Eyes
Episode 63
The Soviet Republic once held tremendous sway over the politics of Central Asia as the grand hegemon of the region. But now, in the post-Soviet world…
4 years, 1 month ago
Hélène Bienvenu, et al., "La Hongrie sous Orban" (Plein Jour, 2022)
Episode 1
"Who knows the name of the Czech prime minister, the name of the head of the Romanian or even the Polish executive branches? Yet, today everyone know…
4 years, 2 months ago
Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
Episode 115
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Portuguese Member of Parliament and internationally ren…
4 years, 2 months ago
Tom Theuns, "The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7" (2022)
Episode 59
"The rule of law is a means by which [western EU members] want to knead us into something that resembles them," warned Viktor Orbán during his succes…
4 years, 2 months ago
Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 569
Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020)…
4 years, 2 months ago