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National Security
April 16, 2021
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?
Graham Smith
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust …
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Sports
April 14, 2021
The Fastest Game in the World
Hockey and the Globalization of Sports
Bruce Berglund
Hosted by Bob D'Angelo
Today we are joined by Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports (University of California Press, 2020). In this sweeping look …
History
April 14, 2021
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021
From World Power to ?
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific and punchy of historians of modern Britain, has written a new account of a period on which he has previously published. A Brief …
History
April 14, 2021
Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War
Defending and Forging Empires
Stefano Marcuzzi
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, tries to shed new …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
April 13, 2021
Cruelty Or Humanity
Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities
Stuart Rees
Hosted by Bede Haines
Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes politicians' fascination with cruelty in their deliberations about policies. Through empirical analysis, human stories and …
World Affairs
April 12, 2021
Lie Machines
How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
Philip N. Howard
Hosted by Medha Prasanna
Technology is breaking politics - what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to …
Geography
April 9, 2021
The Death of Asylum
Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago
Alison Mountz
Hosted by D. Kadich
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) arrives at an extraordinarily consequential moment for the future of asylum protections. Even as more and …
History
April 8, 2021
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations
Colonial Era to the Present
Christopher R. Dietrich
Hosted by Dexter Fergie
The field of US foreign-relations history is not what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Earlier historians narrowly defined the field as diplomatic history and kept vast …
National Security
April 2, 2021
Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism
Thomas David Parker
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy …
Finance
March 30, 2021
Boom and Bust
A Global History of Financial Bubbles
William Quinn and John D. Turner
Hosted by Daniel Peris
Are we in the midst of a financial bubble? Do the current valuations of the electronic vehicle stocks or their SPACs make you raise an eyebrow? The trouble with bubbles is that …
World Affairs
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
Zach Sell
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery in …
History
March 26, 2021
Sulphuric Utopias
A History of Maritime Fumigation
Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris
Hosted by Michael Vann
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the COIVD-19 pandemic, take the time to listen to this discussion of previous efforts to fight yellow fever, cholera, and plague pandemics. Lukas …
German Studies
March 24, 2021
Selling Weimar
German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933
Elisabeth Piller
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the decade after World War I, German-American relations improved swiftly. While resentment and bitterness ran high on both sides in 1919, Weimar Germany and the United States managed to …
History
March 24, 2021
Roosevelt's and Churchill's Atlantic Charter
A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy
Michael Kluger and Richard Evans
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Winston Churchill was no stranger to storms. They had engulfed him in various ways throughout his long career and he had always turned to face them with jutting jaw and …
Political Science
March 18, 2021
Disorienting Neoliberalism
Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom
Benjamin L. McKean
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom (Oxford UP, 2020) takes on a number of different dimensions of neoliberalism to help readers consider not only how this ideological …
History
March 17, 2021
Epidemics and the Modern World
Mitchell L. Hammond
Hosted by Michael Vann
Normally we write blogposts that try to convince you to listen to a conversation with an author about their fascinating book. In the time of COVID-19, it doesn't seem necessary …
Political Science
March 15, 2021
The Far Right Today
Cas Mudde
Hosted by Susan Liebell
What is the difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? Why should we understand Trump as part of a dangerous “fourth wave” of …
World Affairs
March 10, 2021
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination
Amanda Brickell Bellows
Hosted by Sharika Crawford
This ambitious work explores the literary and cultural production about Russian peasants and African Americans in the post-emancipation period. Brickell Bellows draws on visual images from advertisements to oil paintings as …
History
March 8, 2021
Statesman of Europe
A Life of Sir Edward Grey
T. G. Otte
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of …
History
March 2, 2021
The Dutch in the Early Modern World
A History of a Global Power
David Onnekink and Gijs Rommelse
Hosted by Jana Byars
David Onnekink, professor of early modern history at the University of Utrecht discusses his latest book, the delightful, The Dutch in the Early Modern World: History of a Global Power …
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