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Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)

Wartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet they often fail to make these connections. Mistaking strategy for grand ... more

28 Oct 2026 • 42 min

The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East with Sean Mathews (Hurst, 2025)

Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of Western civilisation, this is a Christian Orthodox state on the edge of the Islamic world. And, after... more

28 Oct 2026 • 1 hr 38 min

Standing Up to Trump: Canada and the Future of U.S.-Canadian Relations

How has Donald Trump’s return to the White House transformed the relationship between Canada and the United States? In this episode of International Horizons, John Torpey speaks with Randall Hansen, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Un... more

26 Oct 2026 • 29 min

AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)

Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex (Princeton University Press, 2025), he argues that AI is c... more

26 Oct 2026 • 53 min

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Mary-Collier Wilks

Assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and author of Reimagining Aid

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Episode: Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)

Owen Grey

Historian specializing in Central and Eastern European history, Romanian nationalism, statecraft and international relations

Episode: Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Suparna Chaudhry

Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs

Lewis & Clark College

Episode: Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)

Natalie Bennett

Journalist, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and member of the UK House of Lords

House of Lords

Episode: Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)

Jan Eijking

Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University and author of The Technocratic International

Leiden University

Episode: The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)

Augusto López-Claros

International economist and Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum

Global Governance Forum

Episode: Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros

Sasikumar Sundaram

Senior Lecturer, City University of London; Global South discourse scholar

City University of London

Episode: Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)

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)

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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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Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros

Q: What would real UN reform look like? What sort of true reform? And how would we know reform has been achieved?

He proposes Security Council representation and a veto override, a UN parliamentary assembly, operational collective security and disarmament, an Earth System Council, and more predictable financing. Success would mean the UN delivers outcomes, prevents paralysis and has the resources to carry out its responsibilities.

Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros

Q: From your perspective, what does success look like for the UN? And in thinking about why the UN needs reforming, how has the organization failed?

He measures success by whether the UN enables countries to achieve together what they cannot accomplish individually, citing smallpox eradication, decolonization and human rights. He says the organization has fallen short on collective security, disarmament, poverty and protecting people from rights violations.

The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)

Q: So to what extent does sort of claiming these ideas of the expert, of the international, does that work to kind of change or influence the project of the Suez Canal?

Eijking explains that Ferdinand de Lesseps convened an international engineering commission to establish the canal's feasibility and attract investment. Its membership was shaped by personal connections and political interests, and Egyptian engineers were excluded because their preferred route threatened the project. The international expert label presented the undertaking as impartial despite those interests.

The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)

Q: Can we talk about why for history more broadly, for international relations as a discipline, it matters to investigate how this became normal?

Eijking says historical analysis helps explain expertise as a form of political authority embedded in international organizations. He argues that backlash against expertise often reflects political discontent over particular interventions, and that generic defenses of science miss that point.

Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)

Q: What if we changed our priorities for that cycle? What if instead of buying things and making things and making money, what if we prioritized dignity more?

Bennett says people in economically marginalized communities often have little choice but to buy cheap food and clothing, then face disrespect and judgment. She argues that dignity and respect should be recognized as important social needs, and questions the assumptions underlying Maslow's hierarchy.

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