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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
May 5, 2024
Why America Loses Wars
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e…
May 4, 2024
Varieties of Nationalism
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also…
May 4, 2024
The Sandinista Revolution
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as so…
May 1, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jew…
May 1, 2024
Brand Antarctica
Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stori…
April 28, 2024
Disruption
In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues that…
April 20, 2024
War and Conflict in the Middle Ages
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or a…
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2024), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on …
April 12, 2024
Conflict
In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and forme…
April 11, 2024
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor marke…
April 11, 2024
The Loom of Time
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make clear.…
April 7, 2024
Theory of Irregular War
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue ope…
April 6, 2024
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Marc Edelman …
April 4, 2024
Reds in Blue
Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organisations. Although it had …
April 2, 2024
Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War
Why do great powers go to war? Why are non-violent, diplomatic options not prioritised? Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Pow…
March 31, 2024
Between Immunity and Impunity
How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to them by international law? How does the immunity en…
March 28, 2024
The Great Defiance
It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British–and to extend the early 20th century version of t…
March 27, 2024
Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism
What is fascism? Is it an anomaly in the history of modern Europe? Or its culmination? In Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism (Blooms…
March 26, 2024
Political Theology of International Order
Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays th…
March 25, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Gabriele Mazzini, a lawyer and officer of the European Commission and e…