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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 9, 2022
The Future of Political Anger
A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth
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Owen Bennett-Jones
Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at being left behind, anger …
World Affairs
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Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
Diplomatic History
August 8, 2022
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China During the Cold War
Ariane Knüsel
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 5, 2022
Oil, the State, and War
The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
Emma Ashford
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Miranda Melcher
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022) by Dr. Emma Ashford presents a comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil …
General History
August 5, 2022
Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975
Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia
Nicholas Ferns
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Bernard Keo
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of the focus lies on the …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 3, 2022
Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Yaniv Voller
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Dilan Okcuoglu
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, In Second-Generation Liberation Wars Cambridge UP, 2022),Yaniv …
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
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Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
East Asian Studies
August 2, 2022
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
North Korea and the Third World
Benjamin R. Young
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Miranda Melcher
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
August 1, 2022
Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet
Carl H. Nightingale
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Mark Klobas
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for …
Nordic Asia Podcast
August 1, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
A Discussion with Sean King
Sean King
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Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Is a Chinese invasion on Taiwan a storm on the horizon when the West is busy with the Ukrainian war? Will Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan in August, the …
Philosophy
August 1, 2022
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence
Cécile Fabre
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Robert Talisse
On its face, spying and counter-intelligence activities seem morally suspect. They tend to involve sneaking, deceiving, and manipulating, as well as various forms of betrayal, treachery, and disloyalty. Yet intelligence …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 29, 2022
Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine
A Conversation with Radityo Dharmaputra
Radityo Dharmaputra
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Nordic Asia Podcast
With the upcoming G20 summit this November, all eyes should be on Indonesia – the fourth largest country in the world and current holder of G20 presidency. How has Indonesia …
Economic and Business History
July 28, 2022
Pawned States
State Building in the Era of International Finance
Didac Queralt
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Javier Mejia
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major …
General History
July 28, 2022
The Pursuit of Europe
A History
Anthony Pagden
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Charles Coutinho
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the …
The Vault
July 27, 2022
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
Samantha Power
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New York Institute for the Humanities
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt …
Critical Theory
July 27, 2022
The Global Bourgeoisie
The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
Jürgen Osterhammel, David Motadel, and Christof Dejung
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Morteza Hajizadeh
While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to …
National Security
July 27, 2022
The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy
The Case of the Yom Kippur War
Robert W. Tomlinson
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Samuel Canter
How do military organizations learn? Robert W. Tomlinson's book The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy (Lexington, 2022) covers an important instance of military learning in which the …
General History
July 26, 2022
Russia Resurrected
Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
Kathryn E. Stoner
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Charles Coutinho
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China …
British Studies
July 25, 2022
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
Maeve Ryan
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Joseph Krulder
Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 2022) highlights Britain’s early-nineteenth-century, Royal Navy seizures of slave ships and the processes involved in the “liberation” of …
General History
July 21, 2022
The Rise of English
Global Politics and the Power of Language
Rosemary Salomone
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Miranda Melcher
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its …
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