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European Politics May 16, 2022

The Political Philosophy of the European City

From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?

Ferenc Hörcher

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
To many the city might seem simply a large urban area to live within, but it actually forms an important political concept and community that has been influential throughout European …

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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones May 10, 2022

The Future of Opinion Polls

A Conversation with Mark Pack

Mark Pack

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias and unreliability fly around and yet everyone …
Catholic Studies May 9, 2022

Catholics on the Barricades

Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956

Piotr H. Kosicki

Hosted by Brenna Moore
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy. Piotr H. Kosicki's book Catholics on …
General History May 6, 2022

The Seventh Member State

Algeria, France, and the European Community

Megan Brown

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the …
British Studies May 5, 2022

Britain Alone

How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation

Liam Stanley

Hosted by Lia Paradis
In his new and fascinating book, Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation (Manchester UP, 2022), Dr. Liam Stanley explores how, over the past decade or so …
European Politics April 22, 2022

La Hongrie sous Orban

Hélène Bienvenu,

Hosted by Tim Jones
"Who knows the name of the Czech prime minister, the name of the head of the Romanian or even the Polish executive branches? Yet, today everyone knows the name of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 20, 2022

Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal

Pandemic Perspectives 7

Alexandre Quintanilha

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Portuguese Member of Parliament and internationally renowned biologist Alexandre Quintanilha about the many valuable lessons Portugal's …
Western European Studies April 14, 2022

The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Tom Theuns

Hosted by Tim Jones
"The rule of law is a means by which [western EU members] want to knead us into something that resembles them," warned Viktor Orbán during his successful campaign for a …
Political Science April 11, 2022

Europe's Migration Crisis

Border Deaths and Human Dignity

Vicki Squire

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental …
European Politics March 28, 2022

Orbanland

Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters

Lasse Skytt

Hosted by Tim Jones
On Sunday April 3rd, Hungarians decide whether to elect Viktor Orbán and his special form of eurosceptical "illiberal democracy" to a fourth consecutive term in office as war rages on …
Eastern European Studies March 7, 2022

Dark Finance

Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe

Fabio Mattioli

Hosted by Mathias Fuelling
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe (Stanford University Press, 2020) offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 18, 2022

Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability

Russia 2008–2020

Regina Smyth

Hosted by Anna Zhelnina
In Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability. Russia 2008–2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Regina Smyth reveals how much electoral competition matters to the Putin regime and how competition leaves Russia more …
National Security February 10, 2022

Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century

Alexander Lanoszka

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over the willingness …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 4, 2022

The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

David L. Hoffmann

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Russian Federation. Professor …
European Politics January 24, 2022

Flexible Europe

Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination

Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer

Hosted by Tim Jones
The past decade has been pivotal in the development of the European Union. The single currency has been tested to the limits by successive crises in the financial system, public-debt …
Eastern European Studies January 18, 2022

Migrating Memories

Romanian Germans in Modern Europe

James Koranyi

Hosted by Roland Clark
Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely …
Israel Studies November 18, 2021

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 Union continues to have close political and economic …
World Affairs November 4, 2021

Pax Transatlantica

America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era

Jussi M. Hanhimäki

Hosted by Joe Renouard
Is the West finished as a political idea? In recent years, observers have begun pointing to signs that the transatlantic community is eroding. When the European Union expanded, the classic …
European Politics September 30, 2021

Ruin and Renewal

Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts

Hosted by Tim Jones
"One of the most enduring myths of history writing about Europe in the 20th century is that the century can be neatly divided into a tale of two halves, with …
European Politics September 3, 2021

Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary

The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała

Hosted by Tim Jones
Over the past decade, Poland and Hungary have become laboratories for a new kind of government: proto-authoritarian regimes that still have regular elections, vibrant oppositions and are externally constrained by …