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Medieval History December 5, 2022

The Mongol Storm

Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Nicholas Morton

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As Nicholas Morton …

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Human Rights December 4, 2022

Transitional Justice

Ruti G. Teitel

Hosted by Lavinia Stan
Societies that are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies face a daunting question: should they punish the representatives of the ancien regime or let …
Diplomatic History December 1, 2022

The Nuclear Club

How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

Jonathan R. Hunt

Hosted by Grant Golub
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam (Stanford UP, 2022) reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones November 30, 2022

The Future of Xi and China

A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong

Sue Lin Wong

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
What will a Chinese-dominated world look like? And since Xi Jin Ping will probably rule China for life, what does he want to do; what does he believe in and …
World Affairs November 29, 2022

Backfire

How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests

Agathe Demarais

Hosted by Mathias Fuelling
Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and export controls affect large numbers of companies and …
International Horizons November 29, 2022

What will be the Role of Europe in the Changing World Order?

A Discussion with Sigmar Gabriel

Sigmar Gabriel

Hosted by International Horizons
The transatlantic relationship, arguably the bedrock of the world’s post-World War II international security architecture, came under significant threat during Donald Trump’s tenure in office, as Trump complained about European …
World Affairs November 29, 2022

Planet in Peril

Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

Michael Bess

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 28, 2022

Back to the Moon

The Next Giant Leap for Humankind

Joseph Silk

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying …
Economics November 22, 2022

Trafficking Data

How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty

Aynne Kokas

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the company to American investors or shut …
Genocide Studies November 22, 2022

Genocide

Key Themes

Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves about the state and nature of …
Political Science November 16, 2022

The Sea and International Relations

Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as …
Economic and Business History November 16, 2022

Human Development and the Path to Freedom

1870 to the Present

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Hosted by Javier Mejia
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed …
Language November 15, 2022

Speak Not

Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language

James Griffiths

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the …
World Affairs November 14, 2022

Spatializing Authoritarianism

Natalie Koch

Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
How do authoritarian political leaders use the built environment to shape understandings of national identity and history? How do major urban development projects affect the political fortunes of authoritarian governments …
Anthropology November 14, 2022

Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?

Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education

Naomi A. Moland

Hosted by Sharonee Dasgupta
Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments. But …
Literary Studies November 14, 2022

Entanglements

Envisioning World Literature from the Global South

Andrea Scheurer, Maren Schulze-Engler, Frank Wegner, and Jarula M. I. Gremels

Hosted by Gargi Binju
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 11, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

A Conversation with Kyaw Zeyar Win

Kyaw Zeyar Win

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2017. What will this mean …
Genocide Studies November 11, 2022

Genocide

The Power and Problems of a Concept

Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth …
Economics November 11, 2022

Divided Environments

An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust, and Clemens Hoffmann

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political …
General History November 9, 2022

On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

Holger Afflerbach

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War (Cambridge UP, 2022), Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late …