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Back to SearchDavid R. Marples, "Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir" (E-International Relations, 2020)
Episode 809
David R. Marples' new book Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir (E-International Relations, 2020) describes the author's academic journey from…
5 years, 8 months ago
Marlene Wind, "The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values" (Polity, 2020)
Episode 29
The European Union is arguably facing the greatest existential threat in its history. One of its big four member states has left and the main opposit…
5 years, 9 months ago
Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chancellor" (Droemer Knauer, 2020)
Episode 28
Next year, Germany goes to the polls. For the first time in 15 years, Angela Merkel will not be a candidate for chancellor.
Although a leadership elec…
5 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit" (Indiana UP, 2017)
Episode 793
According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why…
5 years, 9 months ago
J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financial Regulation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 27
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with no …
5 years, 9 months ago
Olli Rehn, "Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 43
Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspec…
5 years, 10 months ago
Paul De Grauwe, "Economics of Monetary Union" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 42
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020) has become a st…
5 years, 10 months ago
Costas Lapavitsas, "The Left Case Against the EU" (Polity, 2018)
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it…
5 years, 10 months ago
Tamar Herzog, "A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 70
To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the Wes…
5 years, 11 months ago
Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West" (FSG, 2020)
Episode 121
The Russian state is back. That may not be a big surprise to Russia watchers. The degree to which it is a KGB state, however, is documented in great …
6 years ago