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Interview with scholars of modern European politics about their new books.

Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?

September 10, 2024

Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?

Olivier Roy

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the Europe…

Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)

September 5, 2024

I am pleased to inform the director

Duncan Simpson
Hosted by Joe Williams

Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am please…

Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

September 4, 2024

Activism Across Borders Since 1870

Daniel Laqua
Hosted by Roland Clark

From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. Although …

Gill Bennett, "The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies" (Oxford UP, 2018)

September 2, 2024

The Zinoviev Letter

Gill Bennett
Hosted by Charles Coutinho

The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still res…

Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)

September 1, 2024

Unexpected Revolutionaries

Manuela Moschella
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…

What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

August 30, 2024

What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

Milada Vachudova and Tim Haughton
Hosted by Licia Cianetti

After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episod…

Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

August 24, 2024

EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019

Anders Persson
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European…

S4E2 Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely

August 21, 2024

Lost in Ideology

Jason Blakely
Hosted by Laura Laurent

What exactly is political ideology? Are we all trapped within our own ideological bubbles, and if so, how do we break free? How do religious beliefs i…

Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)

August 21, 2024

Beauty Is in the Street

Joachim C. Häberlen

In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the str…

Peter Allen, "The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are" (Oxford UP, 2018)

August 20, 2024

The Political Class

Peter Allen
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Who is in charge? In The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparative…

Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)

August 6, 2024

Lost in Ideology

Jason Blakely
Hosted by Nick Cheesman

If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his n…

Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

August 1, 2024

Charm

Julia Sonnevend
Hosted by Mark Klobas

Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a be…

Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

July 28, 2024

Talking Back to the West

Bilge Yesil
Hosted by Reuben Silverman

In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player…

Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)

July 23, 2024

Autocracy, Inc.

Anne Applebaum
Hosted by Tim Jones

"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a…

Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)

June 28, 2024

Europe's Banking Union at Ten

Nicolas Véron
Hosted by Tim Jones

In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their gov…

The Democratic Regression: The Political Causes of Authoritarian Populism. A Conversation with Armin Schäfer and Michael Zürn

June 27, 2024

The Democratic Regression

Armin Schäfer and Michael Zürn
Hosted by Nic Cheeseman

Why are so many democracies experiencing the rise of authoritarian populism? And what can we do to address this? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Arm…

Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

June 24, 2024

Europe Against Revolution

Matthijs Lok

Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and c…

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

June 22, 2024

The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony

In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 (Cambridge University Pr…

Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)

June 13, 2024

Italy Reborn

Mark Gilbert
Hosted by Tim Jones

Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. …

Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)

June 12, 2024

Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union

Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers a…