Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard Bellamy et al., "Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Episode 57
The past decade has been pivotal in the development of the European Union.
The single currency has been tested to the limits by successive crises in t…
4 years, 5 months ago
James Koranyi, "Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 147
Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century …
4 years, 5 months ago
Karlo Basta, "The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
Episode 572
In his new book, The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries (McGill-Queen’s University Pre…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ronald Beiner, "Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Episode 131
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphe…
4 years, 5 months ago
Martin Conway, "Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 31
What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe’s Democratic Age…
4 years, 5 months ago
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
Episode 181
For the past 30 years, a group of Russian scholars have dedicated themselves to uncovering the crimes of Stalinism. Their organization, Memorial, has…
4 years, 6 months ago
Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 59
With COP26 and high fossil fuel prices, energy is back in the headlines. And Russia, as one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbons, is part…
4 years, 6 months ago
James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák, "The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 139
This new book by James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák explores the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious unde…
4 years, 7 months ago
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Episode 36
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the Europea…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jussi M. Hanhimäki, "Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 51
Is the West finished as a political idea? In recent years, observers have begun pointing to signs that the transatlantic community is eroding. When t…
4 years, 7 months ago