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January 21, 2021
Digital Nomads
In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy
Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, however …
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Military History
January 18, 2021
Britain's War
A New World, 1942-1947
Daniel Todman
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins with the event Winston Churchill called …
Systems and Cybernetics
January 18, 2021
Network Origins of the Global Economy
East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective
Hilton L. Root
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all stripes find …
Political Science
January 11, 2021
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis'
Theoretical Approaches
Halit M. E. Tagma and Paul E. Lenze Jr.
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How can multiple theoretical approaches yield a better understanding of international political politics? In Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis': Theoretical Approaches (Lexington Books, 2020), Dr. Halit M. E. Tagma …
Military History
January 8, 2021
Adaptation Under Fire
How Militaries Change in Wartime
David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Few human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the undeniably chaotic reality of combat. Militaries, by design …
Political Science
January 7, 2021
International Relations and the Problem of Time
Andrew R. Hom
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Andrew Hom’s new book examines what he calls the “problem of time” in context of international relations and international relations theory. The subject of time is a growing field of …
History
January 6, 2021
A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance …
World Affairs
January 6, 2021
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
Rajan Menon
Hosted by Medha Prasanna
In The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2020), Rajan Menon shows that this belief, while noble, is naïve. He considers it ancient artifact belonging to the brief period …
History
December 29, 2020
The Idealist
Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World
Samuel Zipp
Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
During the 1940s, many Americans began to rethink America’s place in the world, and they did so with the help of Wendell Willkie. Willkie, the 1940 Republican nominee for president …
Indian Ocean World
December 28, 2020
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
J. Daniel Elam
Hosted by Kelvin Ng
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocates collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early …
Third World Nationalism
December 24, 2020
The Wilsonian Moment
Self-determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
Erez Manela
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is a Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in addition …
Sports
December 15, 2020
Soccer Diplomacy
International Relations and Football since 1914
Heather L. Dichter
Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at DeMontfort University and fellow at the international Centre for Sports History and Culture. She …
Genocide Studies
December 15, 2020
Unstable Ground
Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide
Alex Alvarez
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes …
Politics & Polemics
December 14, 2020
The Wake-Up Call
Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many …
World Affairs
December 14, 2020
International Aid and Democracy Promotion
Liberalization at the Margins
Bann Seng Tan
Hosted by Medha Prasanna
In International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins (Routledge, 2020), Political Scientist Bann Seng Tan investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical …
History
December 9, 2020
Asian Place, Filipino Nation
A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Hosted by Michael Vann
The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet …
History
December 9, 2020
The Fabric of Civilization
How Textiles Made the World
Virginia Postrel
Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
In The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Basic Books, 2020), Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles. The story begins with our distant ancestors who used …
Latin American Studies
December 9, 2020
The Last Good Neighbor
Mexico in the Global Sixties
Eric Zolov
Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke UP, 2020), Professor Eric Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders …
Indian Ocean World
December 7, 2020
A World at Sea
Maritime Practices and Global History
Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Hosted by Kelvin Ng
L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal's A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020) consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of …
African American Studies
December 4, 2020
Pauulu's Diaspora
Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
Quito J. Swan
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020) by Quito Swan is an enchanting, magisterial, broadly researched monograph that illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across …
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