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National Security
April 16, 2021
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?
Graham Smith
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust …
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History
April 14, 2021
Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War
Defending and Forging Empires
Stefano Marcuzzi
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, tries to shed new …
Latin American Studies
April 13, 2021
Just Immigration in the Americas
A Feminist Account
Allison B. Wolf
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Music
April 9, 2021
Ballet in the Cold War
A Soviet-American Exchange
Anne Searcy
Hosted by Kristen Turner
During the Cold War, cultural diplomacy was one way that the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union tried to cultivate goodwill towards their countries. As Anne Searcy …
History
April 8, 2021
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations
Colonial Era to the Present
Christopher R. Dietrich
Hosted by Dexter Fergie
The field of US foreign-relations history is not what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Earlier historians narrowly defined the field as diplomatic history and kept vast …
History
April 7, 2021
Embodying Geopolitics
Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
Nicola Pratt
Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
European Studies
April 7, 2021
The Road to Monetary Union
Richard Pomfret
Hosted by Tim Jones
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements series on the Economics of European Integration: The …
Literary Studies
April 2, 2021
Training for Catastrophe
Fictions of National Security after 9/11
Lindsay Thomas
Hosted by Frani O'Toole
In Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), author Lindsay Thomas studies the relationship between fiction and U.S. national security — specifically, the instrumentalization of fiction …
National Security
April 2, 2021
Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism
Thomas David Parker
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy …
German Studies
March 24, 2021
Selling Weimar
German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933
Elisabeth Piller
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the decade after World War I, German-American relations improved swiftly. While resentment and bitterness ran high on both sides in 1919, Weimar Germany and the United States managed to …
History
March 24, 2021
Roosevelt's and Churchill's Atlantic Charter
A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy
Michael Kluger and Richard Evans
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Winston Churchill was no stranger to storms. They had engulfed him in various ways throughout his long career and he had always turned to face them with jutting jaw and …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 23, 2021
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
Elizabeth F. Thompson
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state …
Political Science
March 22, 2021
Turkey–West Relations
The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition
Oya Dursun-Özkanca
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we make sense of Turkey’s recent turn against the West – after decades of Turkish cooperation and desire to be integrated into the European and wider Western community …
Communications
March 17, 2021
How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants
Kirsten Forkert and Gargi Bhattacharyya
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Has 'migrant' become an unshakeable identity for some people? How does this happen and what role does the media play in classifying individuals as 'migrants' rather than people? How Media …
History
March 8, 2021
Statesman of Europe
A Life of Sir Edward Grey
T. G. Otte
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of …
Military History
March 3, 2021
Forging the Trident
Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy
John B. Hattendorf and William P. Leeman
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Theodore Roosevelt was a titan of American politics, society, and culture. Rarely soft spoken, always eager to brandish a big stick, and animated by an inexhaustible energy, Roosevelt used his …
National Security
March 3, 2021
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
James R. Holmes
Hosted by Jeffrey Bristol
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy (US Naval Institute Press, 2019), is a readable introduction to the world of maritime strategy. While Prof Holmes bases his narrative on the writings …
National Security
February 26, 2021
Reset
Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Ronald J. Deibert
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Ronald Deibert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of The Citizen Lab, a public interest research organization that uncovers privacy and human …
Christian Studies
February 24, 2021
God's Cold Warrior
The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles
John D. Wilsey
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of …
National Security
February 23, 2021
Strategic Instincts
The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
Dominic D. P. Johnson
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
In Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2020), Dominic Johnson challenges the assumption that cognitive biases led to policy failures, disasters …
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