New Books in World Affairs
Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 1951
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American political scientist and administrative director of the Ralph Bunche Institute who spent the last aca…
00:42:43 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle Ea…
01:01:21 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this strategic resource; that the "special" relationship …
01:06:25 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid: The End of South …
00:43:05 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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 so bewildering?
In …
01:05:44 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare (Cambridge UP, 2023) introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in…
00:41:07 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European Union continues to have close political and econ…
00:58:18 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection…
00:57:07 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovative and eye-opening analysis of strategic arguing as…
01:04:43 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Justine Bendel, "Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure Before International Courts and Tribunals" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
In Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure Before International Courts and Tribunals (Edward Elgar, 2023), Dr Justine Bendel scrutinises how international courts and tribunals may respond p…
01:16:37 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
How do micro-interactions of resistance, fighting and dialogue shape larger patterns of peace and conflict? How can nonviolent resistance, conflict transformation and diplomacy be analysed in micro-d…
00:40:50 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the cr…
01:00:26 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period. If curren…
00:39:37 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires.
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global…
00:49:49 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Democracy Promotion, Progressive Realism and the Labour Government’s Policy Towards Asia
Does the Labour Party’s 2024 election victory spell the end of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy interest in Asia? And how will its ‘progressive realism’ foreign policy paradigm shape its democracy…
00:37:24 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, th…
00:54:52 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ronald Reagan and an exploration of nuclear command…
00:58:09 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
In his new book The Stalinist Era(Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on the myriad ways in which Stalinist practices had their origins in World War I (1914-1918) and Russian…
01:07:05 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
The GiveWell Method
In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explai…
00:27:16 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
What is the “dragonbear”? It is a metophor of an emerging strategic alliance between Russia and China. In this episdoe, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to geostrategist Velina Tchakarova about the dragonbear…
00:28:28 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
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