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History January 13, 2021

Whistleblowing Nation

The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy

Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
In the past decade, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden became household names. They were celebrated by many as truth-tellers who blew the whistle on governmental abuses. Yet, in the eyes …

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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 …
Kurdish Studies January 7, 2021

Mapping Kurdistan

Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism

Zeynep N. Kaya

Hosted by Dilan Okcuoglu
Since the early twentieth-century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than in their promotion of the 'Map of …
Middle Eastern Studies January 7, 2021

The Sword is Not Enough

Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force

Jeremy Pressman

Hosted by Aaron Hagler
Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. Jeremy is the author of The Sword is Not Enough …
National Security January 6, 2021

American Zealots

Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Arie Perliger

Hosted by Beth Windisch
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics …
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 …
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 …
History December 17, 2020

Sarajevo 1914

Sparking the First World War

Mark Cornwall

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have …
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 …
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 …
East Asian Studies December 8, 2020

China's Good War

How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism

Rana Mitter

Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Although World War II had been largely remembered in the People’s Republic of China as an experience of victimization since its founding in 1949, that view has been changing since …
Music December 8, 2020

Harmony and Normalization

US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy

Timothy P. Storhoff

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased …
History December 3, 2020

For Might and Right

Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy

Michael Brenes

Hosted by Zeb Larson
Donald Trump campaigned on a great many things in 2016, but one of the issues he used to criticize Democrats was their role in supporting sequestration and cuts to …
Politics & Polemics December 2, 2020

China: Engage!

Avoid The New Cold War

Vince Cable

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries – like India – have deteriorated …
National Security December 2, 2020

One Belt One Road

Chinese Power Meets the World

Eyck Freymann

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. How can something so large be …
National Security December 2, 2020

Hate in the Homeland

The New Global Far Right

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Hosted by Beth Windisch
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to …
History December 1, 2020

Isolationism

A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

Charles A. Kupchan

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force. In Isolationism: A History of America’s …
History November 30, 2020

All Against All

The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

Paul Jankowski

Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In his latest monograph, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and The Origins of the Second World War (Harper, 2020), Professor Paul Jankowski (Brandeis University) provides a wide-angled …