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Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 30, 2026

Colloquies on European Civil Procedure: A Conversation with Marco de Benito

39 mins; March 28, 2026

Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 23, 2026

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026

Andrew I. Port, "Germany" (Polity, 2025)

74 hours 6 mins; March 22, 2026

H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 17, 2026

Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

82 hours 13 mins; March 15, 2026

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

53 mins; March 15, 2026

Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)

37 mins; March 14, 2026

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

41 mins; March 12, 2026

Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections

68 hours 37 mins; March 10, 2026

Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)

27 mins; March 02, 2026

How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions

33 mins; February 16, 2026

Competing Visions for International Order

28 mins; February 13, 2026

China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation

29 mins; February 06, 2026

Najati Sidqi, "Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi" (U Texas Press, 2025)

25 mins; January 30, 2026

All You Need to Know about Russian Politics Today

49 mins; January 30, 2026

Richard A. Falk and Hans von Sponeck, "Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope" (Stanford UP, 2024)

78 hours 30 mins; January 22, 2026

Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)

83 hours 6 mins; January 21, 2026

Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

85 hours 30 mins; January 19, 2026

Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo, "The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

71 hours 42 mins; January 18, 2026

Douglas Greene, "In Stalin's Shadow: Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials" (Resistance Books, 2025)

63 hours 34 mins; January 14, 2026

Dagmar Herzog, "The New Fascist Body" (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025)

64 hours 34 mins; January 13, 2026

Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; January 12, 2026

Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)

75 hours 37 mins; January 11, 2026

David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)

75 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2026

Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

75 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2026

What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?

85 hours 32 mins; January 05, 2026

James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)

74 hours 23 mins; January 04, 2026

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)

48 mins; January 01, 2026

Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)

29 mins; December 26, 2025

Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)

40 mins; December 26, 2025

Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)

42 mins; December 12, 2025

Jacob Daniels, "The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders" (Stanford UP, 2025)

81 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2025

Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)

53 mins; December 01, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

45 mins; November 28, 2025

What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care

31 mins; November 26, 2025

Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)

90 hours 48 mins; November 25, 2025

Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)

59 mins; November 24, 2025

On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore

66 hours 15 mins; November 18, 2025

Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)

72 hours 39 mins; November 11, 2025

Paula Oppermann, "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

64 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2025

Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries

42 mins; October 28, 2025

Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland

55 mins; October 28, 2025

Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

45 mins; October 26, 2025

Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)

63 hours 20 mins; October 19, 2025

Lorenzo Castellani, "Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy" (Routledge, 2025)

47 mins; October 18, 2025

Gianna Englert, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP, 2024)

73 hours 5 mins; October 15, 2025

Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

86 hours 39 mins; October 10, 2025

Andrew Lambert, "No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One" (Yale UP, 2025)

53 mins; October 07, 2025

Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

51 mins; October 07, 2025

Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; October 03, 2025

Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

28 mins; October 01, 2025

Matt Myers, "The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989" (Oxford UP, 2025)

73 hours 3 mins; September 30, 2025

Authoritarian Ideas, Old and New: From Schmitt to “JD”

79 hours 14 mins; September 24, 2025

Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025)

47 mins; September 23, 2025

Zahi Zalloua, "Fanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

68 hours 36 mins; September 17, 2025

Christopher Millington, "Murder in Marseille: Right-Wing Terrorism in 1930s Europe" (Manchester UP, 2025)

37 mins; September 16, 2025

Huseyn Aliyev, "Who Fights for Governments? Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)

107 hours 50 mins; September 13, 2025

Peter Sparding, "No Better Friend? The United States and Germany Since 1945" (Hurst, 2024)

53 mins; September 12, 2025

Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2025)

55 mins; September 11, 2025

Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 09, 2025

Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)

39 mins; September 08, 2025

Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

63 hours 9 mins; August 31, 2025

Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)

64 hours 0 mins; August 27, 2025

Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents" (Hackett Publishing, 2017)

63 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2025

Harald Bodenschatz et al., "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945" (DOM, 2025)

56 mins; August 26, 2025

Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)

40 mins; August 24, 2025

Konrad H. Jarausch, "Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative" (Princeton UP, 2021)

31 mins; August 23, 2025

Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024)

65 hours 12 mins; August 23, 2025

Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)

51 mins; August 17, 2025

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48" (Cambridge UP, 2014)

85 hours 22 mins; August 16, 2025

David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)

75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025

Ned Richardson-Little, "The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

53 mins; August 13, 2025

Aviva Guttmann, "Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

50 mins; August 11, 2025

Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)

64 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2025

Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

43 mins; August 03, 2025

Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)

58 mins; August 02, 2025

How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy

33 mins; July 31, 2025

Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

48 mins; July 30, 2025

Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)

30 mins; July 28, 2025

Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)

71 hours 2 mins; July 26, 2025

Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO" (Hachette UK, 2024)

58 mins; July 18, 2025

Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)

53 mins; July 11, 2025

J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)

71 hours 26 mins; July 04, 2025

Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)

54 mins; July 02, 2025

Malaysian-Nordic Relations

19 mins; July 01, 2025

Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

78 hours 37 mins; June 25, 2025

Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)

53 mins; June 25, 2025

John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)

71 hours 1 min; June 17, 2025

Johannes Karremans, "Between Voters and Eurocrats: How Do Governments Justify their Budgets?" (Oxford UP, 2024)

36 mins; June 14, 2025

Marlene Laruelle, "Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime" (Stanford UP, 2025)

48 mins; June 12, 2025

Ethnic minorities are good for democracy – Here is why

32 mins; June 12, 2025

Michelle Lynn Kahn, "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

38 mins; June 11, 2025

Charles J Esdaile, "The Spanish Civil War: A Military History" (Routledge, 2019)

117 hours 58 mins; June 08, 2025

Stephan Kieninger, "Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

43 mins; June 07, 2025

NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship

45 mins; June 07, 2025

Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)

59 mins; June 01, 2025

Thomas Mutch, "The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia's Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine's Iron Generation" (Biteback, 2025)

39 mins; May 29, 2025

Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)

39 mins; May 28, 2025

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