Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJames Mark et al., "1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 122
The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that …
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Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
Episode 121
Margarita Balmaceda’s Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Columbia University Press,…
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Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Episode 146
A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces (I. B. Tauris, 2021) is a primer for anybody who wants to understand modern Turkish p…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lucy Kinski, "European Representation in EU National Parliaments" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 68
It’s been 44 years since the Young European Federalists first coined the term “democratic deficit” – two years before the first direct elections to t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Massimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 51
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published…
4 years, 11 months ago
Léonie de Jonge, "The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 50
"The populist radical right is by far the best-studied party family within political science”. Extremism expert Cas Mudde may be right but, as Léonie…
4 years, 11 months ago
Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
Episode 49
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the interwar…
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Christian Ydesen, "The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 139
In 1961, it was famously declared that the “fight for education is too important to be left solely to the educators.” Enter the OECD. In The OECD’s H…
4 years, 11 months ago
Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 163
Putin is not the unconstrained, all-powerful boogeyman he is made out to be in the popular Western media. So says Timothy Frye, Professor of Politica…
4 years, 11 months ago
Marta Dyczok, "Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Episode 115
Marta Dyczok's book Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019 (Ibidem Press, 2021) is like a time capsule containing a selection…
4 years, 11 months ago