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Recent Episodes
  • Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Jun 9, 2025 – 49:01
  • NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
    Jun 7, 2025 – 47:31
  • Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth, "A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 01:02:53
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Jun 4, 2025 – 01:06:26
  • Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 01:05:30
  • Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    May 30, 2025 – 56:14
  • How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
    May 27, 2025 – 34:52
  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
    May 24, 2025 – 44:02
  • Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
    May 20, 2025 – 01:16:20
  • Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 19, 2025 – 01:21:01
  • Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 18, 2025 – 54:54
  • Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
    May 17, 2025 – 39:56
  • Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    May 16, 2025 – 01:15:16
  • Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
    May 14, 2025 – 36:41
  • Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    May 13, 2025 – 48:29
  • Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
    May 9, 2025 – 01:13:10
  • Maïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
    May 8, 2025 – 45:25
  • Joanna Siekiera, "Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in 21st Century Conflicts and Beyond" (Marine Corps UP, 2025)
    May 7, 2025 – 01:16:20
  • Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
    May 6, 2025 – 47:32
  • Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
    May 5, 2025 – 58:34
  • Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
    May 4, 2025 – 01:16:41
  • Subho Basu, "Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    May 3, 2025 – 44:45
  • Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025)
    May 2, 2025 – 01:00:13
  • Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
    May 1, 2025 – 01:15:06
  • Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
    Apr 30, 2025 – 44:52
  • Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Apr 29, 2025 – 48:51
  • Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    Apr 28, 2025 – 34:26
  • Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
    Apr 25, 2025 – 01:03:33
  • Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 55:18
  • Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    Apr 22, 2025 – 56:59
  • China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
    Apr 18, 2025 – 48:00
  • Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    Apr 9, 2025 – 01:02:52
  • Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 8, 2025 – 24:38
  • Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:41:07
  • Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:04
  • Lavanya Vemsani, "Reframing India in World History" (Lexington Books, 2024)
    Apr 6, 2025 – 39:17
  • Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Apr 5, 2025 – 55:15
  • Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Apr 4, 2025 – 01:11:44
  • Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
    Apr 3, 2025 – 39:28
  • Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine
    Apr 2, 2025 – 34:42
  • Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:19:27
  • Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
    Mar 31, 2025 – 35:01
  • Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 44:31
  • Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 40:47
  • Jim Storr, "War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2025)
    Mar 25, 2025 – 58:40
  • Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 01:51:40
  • Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:03:06
  • Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Mar 21, 2025 – 43:58
  • Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Mar 20, 2025 – 01:13:36
  • Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:00:48
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