Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSchengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19
Episode 62
The Schengen area consists of 26 European states, most members of the EU but some not, and consists of two main features: the absence of intra-Scheng…
4 years, 2 months ago
Lasse Skytt, "Orbanland: Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters" (New Europe Books, 2022)
Episode 58
On Sunday April 3rd, Hungarians decide whether to elect Viktor Orbán and his special form of eurosceptical "illiberal democracy" to a fourth consecut…
4 years, 3 months ago
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
Episode 159
In the fall of 2020, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal decreed that the country’s near-total ban on abortion was too liberal; henceforth, pregnancies …
4 years, 3 months ago
Vassilis Petsinis, "National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans" (I.B. Tauris, 2019)
Episode 156
In his book, National Identity in Serbia: Vojvodina and a Multiethnic Society between the Balkans and Central Europe (I.B. Tauris, 2019), Vassilis Pe…
4 years, 3 months ago
Fabio Mattioli, "Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 158
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe (Stanford University Press, 2020) offers one of the first ethnographic accoun…
4 years, 3 months ago
Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 192
Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived exper…
4 years, 4 months ago
Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 186
In Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability. Russia 2008–2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Regina Smyth reveals how much elector…
4 years, 4 months ago
Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Episode 210
Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at the International Centre for Sports History an…
4 years, 4 months ago
Alexander Lanoszka, "Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 98
Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and …
4 years, 4 months ago
David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 185
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Rus…
4 years, 4 months ago