New Books in World Affairs
Latest Episodes
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
An interview with Stephen Morillo
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
An interview with Jeremy Black
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
An interview with David Petraeus
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Dani Rodrik(Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor market effects of globalization, and his vision of an ideal economic policy paradigm.Rodrik is the Ford Found
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
An interview with Robert D. Kaplan
Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)
An interview with Jonathan W. Hackett
Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
An interview with Marc Edelman
Louis Howard Porter, "Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Louis Howard Porter
Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
An interview with Matthieu Grandpierron
Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
An interview with Yuliya Zabyelina