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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
April 18, 2026
Pirate Imperialism
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance in the form of …
April 18, 2026
Enemies in Agreement
Why do adversaries sometimes cooperate to restrain their military competition? Why do they design arms control agreements with intrusive verification …
April 12, 2026
Monarchies of Extraction
In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the Gul…
April 12, 2026
The Killing Age
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the M…
April 10, 2026
Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid
This is Radio ReOrient. Welcome to our 14th season of navigating the post-Western and connecting the Islamosphere. We begin this season with Radio…
April 10, 2026
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core …
April 6, 2026
The China Question
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former." So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
April 5, 2026
Africa Unbound
I had a substantive conversation with Dr. Stephen Onyango Ouma, author of Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation (Brill, 20…
April 3, 2026
The Citizen and the Vagabond
An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility (U Minnesota Press, 2026) d…
April 2, 2026
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
What role did Gen Z play in the popular uprising that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in the summer of 2024? And what marks have the upris…
April 2, 2026
What's Global about Sven Beckert's Capitalism (Paul Kramer, JP)
John is joined by the brilliant and affable Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt (The Blood of Government) to discuss Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 202…
April 2, 2026
Leave If You Can
The consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible mi…
March 31, 2026
Sustaining Peace After Civil War
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: What …
March 30, 2026
Rocks
What is that rock you’ve just picked up? Which minerals is it made of, what’s unique about it and what can it reveal about Earth’s deeper story? …
March 29, 2026
Red Pill Politics
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stokin…
March 29, 2026
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market (Brill, 2026) is the latest book from Dr. Kristin Ciupa, As…
March 28, 2026
On Our Continuing Age of Oil
Stanley Reed has been covering energy and the Middle East from London for more than three decades, most recently for The New York Times. With the war …
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
March 25, 2026
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
Gender is becoming a central battleground in contemporary authoritarian politics, but how do autocrats manipulate these debates to their own advantage…
March 25, 2026
NATO Stability Policing
Since the end of the Cold War and the resurgence of great power competition on the world stage, NATO has been in a period of transition to adapting to…