Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchS. Palombarini and B. Amable, "The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 42
Emmanuel Macron “has shown a genuine ability to strategize politically, determinedly and clear-sightedly [in] occupying the space of the bourgeois bl…
5 years, 3 months ago
Merijn Oudenampsen, "The Rise of the Dutch New Right" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 40
We are not short of books and commentary on the rise of the nativist right in Europe and the US but not all these movements are alike. Among the most…
5 years, 3 months ago
Tom Louwerse, "Governance and Politics of the Netherlands" (Red Globe Press, 2020)
Episode 39
Ranked sixth globally in the BAV Group’s 2020 “Best Countries” index and 11th in output per head, the Netherlands is renowned worldwide as a wealthy,…
5 years, 3 months ago
Erik S. Herron, "Normalizing Corruption: Failures of Accountability in Ukraine" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Episode 97
Erik S. Herron’s Normalizing Corruption: Failures of Accountability in Ukraine (University of Michigan Press, 2020) zeroes in on the mechanisms that …
5 years, 3 months ago
David Stavrou, "Leaving Zion: The Israeli Diaspora in Europe" (Pardes, 2019)
Episode 25
The meaning of being an immigrant has changed significantly in the 21st century. The internet, social media and networks, cost of travels, homeland p…
5 years, 3 months ago
Signe Rehling Larsen, "The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union" ((Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 38
“The autarkic European nation-state, if it ever existed, was the exception rather than the rule. Nevertheless it is the myth of the self-sufficient n…
5 years, 4 months ago
M. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 65
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regu…
5 years, 4 months ago
Fabrizio Fenghi, "It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Episode 139
The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideo…
5 years, 4 months ago
András Körösényi, "The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making" (Routledge, 2020)
As Hungary's opposition parties form themselves into an unlikely pre-electoral coalition, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces the first genuine challen…
5 years, 4 months ago
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang, "Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 93
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and ex…
5 years, 5 months ago