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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), 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…
March 25, 2024
Understanding Comparative Politics
Research in political science shows that collections and textbooks often mention race, gender, ethnicity, and religion – but they don’t consistently u…
March 24, 2024
Cold War 2.0
A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new C…
March 24, 2024
Missionary Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University Press, 2024) illuminates the crucial place of rel…
March 23, 2024
Pax Economica
A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mid…
March 22, 2024
International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently, ho…
March 20, 2024
Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law
Kalika Mehta's book Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis (Routledge, 2023) provides a com…
March 19, 2024
How to Be a Good Statesman
We have a preponderance of books on leadership in business; yet, despite broad dissatisfaction with our political leaders, almost none on how to be a …