Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The term “Heimat,” referring to a local sense of home and belonging, has been the subject of much scholarly and popular debate following the fall of …
11 months ago
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers ha…
11 months ago
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))
In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff t…
11 months ago
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther st…
11 months ago
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 182
Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 202…
11 months ago
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 32
Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental He…
11 months ago
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 114
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over per…
11 months, 1 week ago
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century"
In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original …
11 months, 1 week ago
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge Unive…
11 months, 2 weeks ago