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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …