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Recent Guests

Giuseppe Motta
Professor of History of International Relations
Sapienza University of Rome
Episode: Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)
Nora Fisher-Onar
Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of San Francisco
University of San Francisco
Episode: Nora Fisher-Onar, "Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Meghan Garrity
Assistant Professor of International Security and Law at George Mason University
George Mason University
Episode: Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Ned Lebow
Emeritus Professor of International Political Theory, King's College London; honorary fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; James O'Freedman Presidential Professor, Emeritus at Dartmouth College
King's College London; Dartmouth College; Pembroke College, Cambridge
Episode: Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Prakash Kashwan
Author and scholar, Decolonizing Environmentalism
Brandeis University (Associate Professor, Environmental Studies)
Episode: Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
David Helvarg
Author and founder of Blue Frontier, ocean policy advocate
Blue Frontier
Episode: David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Julian G. Waller
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University; research analyst in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses
George Washington University; Center for Naval Analyses
Episode: After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller
Chenchen Zhang
Associate Professor of International Relations at Durham University; host of the Shusha Podcast
Durham University
Episode: Chenchen Zhang, "Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Ed Goldring
Senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne; author of Purges, How Dictators Fight to Survive
University of Melbourne
Episode: Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 2026)

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    a year ago
  • Condescending boringness

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    Canada2 years ago
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  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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    4 years ago
  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)
Q: What is the main argument of your new book and why the subtitle Beyond the State?
The book argues that the refugee crises in the interwar period forced a reorientation of international institutions from state-centric to more rights-based approaches, with NGOs playing a crucial role and the concept of the refugee evolving from a group category to an individual protection regime.
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Can you tell us about the main categories and kinds of kelp and how they form canopies that support entire ecosystems?
The guest outlines the taxonomy of kelp, explaining major and minor species, differences in buoyancy and growth, and how kelp forests create complex habitats that shelter thousands of species much like coral reefs do, while noting their prevalence in colder temperate waters.
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off, please, by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
David Helvarg explains his background as an author and ocean advocate, founding Blue Frontier, and describes how personal experience as a diver and concern for declining kelp forests motivated him to write Forest of the Sea to highlight the global importance of kelp ecosystems.
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
Meghan Garrity describes her background as a humanitarian worker and scholar, explains how a vacation observing population exchanges sparked her interest, and outlines the motivation to compile a dataset on expulsion and develop a formal definition and typology to organize these events.
After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller
Q: How do you see the formal constitutional process interacting with informal power networks in a post-Putin transition?
The formal process would trigger an acting president followed by an election, but the outcome will depend on which figures control central state organs and maintain loyalty networks, potentially leading to a highly negotiated, protracted power consolidation rather than a rapid turnover.

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