Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Gilbert, "European Integration: A Political History" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Episode 33
“Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about Europe…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ewald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020)
Episode 48
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest b…
5 years, 7 months ago
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 101
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and …
5 years, 7 months ago
Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Press, 2020)
Episode 100
From one of its keenest observers, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit (Penguin Press) is a b…
5 years, 8 months ago
M. Sobolewska and R. Ford, "Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 192
What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society? In Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Cambridge…
5 years, 8 months ago
Anthony L. Gardner, "Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 31
If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the "indispensible nation" then the economic, democratic and institutio…
5 years, 8 months ago
H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, "Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 77
The articles presented in Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) aim to explore the curre…
5 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 30
In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership.
What was at the core of the country’…
5 years, 8 months ago
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 46
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mism…
5 years, 8 months ago
Sheri Berman, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 814
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, …
5 years, 8 months ago