Ranked #1
Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)
Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)
After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most tu... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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44mins
Ranked #2
Terrence Lyons, "The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
Terrence Lyons, "The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
How did a group with its origins in a small Marxist-Leninist insurgency in northern Ethiopia transform itself into a par... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #3
Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Today I talked to Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan about their new book Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War (Oxford UP, 20... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #4
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air... Read more
12 Aug 2023
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52mins
Ranked #5
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Michael J. Diamond's book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times (Phoenix Pu... Read more
11 Aug 2023
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #6
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a def... Read more
10 Aug 2023
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #7
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? Wha... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #8
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #9
Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century.... Read more
8 Aug 2023
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40mins
Ranked #10
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic... Read more
7 Aug 2023
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46mins