Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNegar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025
Episode 1187
For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional la…
10 months ago
Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1189
The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism…
10 months ago
Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1188
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?
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10 months ago
Kathryn Chelminski, "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1186
As the world moves with increasing urgency to mitigate climate change and catalyze energy transitions to net zero, understanding the governance mecha…
10 months ago
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1185
Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationship…
10 months ago
Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1184
The way we govern the past to ensure peaceful futures keeps conflict anxieties alive. In pursuit of its own survival, permanence and legitimacy, the …
10 months, 1 week ago
Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1183
Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around the premise that the West possessed progressive characteris…
10 months, 1 week ago
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 326
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth centur…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1181
The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic often considered to be not just the 'Hindu Bible' but sometimes the 'Indian Bible' as well. Over the last two ce…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
Episode 109
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, chats with Verena Halsmeyer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, about her recent, award-winning bo…
10 months, 2 weeks ago